Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened anyway. Davis awoke on the morning of May 29 to find four special agents and five local cops crowded into his apartment. They cuffed him, carted off his Power Macintosh plus (inexplicably) 300 music CDs and slapped a $165 fine on him for possession of a can of beer they found in his refrigerator. Still, Davis got off lightly. Global Hell's other founder, a Houston-based computer whiz named MostHated, had to answer to his parents, whom he still lives with, and who weren't too pleased when the FBI took away the family PC that held...
...practice is often a contributing factor in tensions between minorities and police. Last week the Justice Department released a 12-city survey in which 24% of the blacks who were polled said they were unhappy with their local police. It was a smaller number than might be expected at a time of prominent police-brutality cases, including the trial of three New York City officers accused of assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. But it was a far higher number than the 10% of whites unhappy with police...
...someone who's about to finish four years of studying physics and move to Indonesia to work with local banks, Jeremy B. Tobacman '99 seems surprisingly unfazed by graduation...
...will begin his year working for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). There he will help Bank Bakayat--a uniquely structured Indonesian bank comprised of a series of small "village banks"--determine what practices are most successful for its local banks...
Tobacman is trying to figure out how to be sure that his work in Indonesia, like his work in the homeless shelters, has a direct impact on people. One option he's considering is working at a local branch of Bank Bakayat...