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...overruled a recommendation from the council’s Finance Committee (FiCom), which had voted not to award Mission Hill any of the $2,500 that the group had requested for vans. Mission Hill sends volunteers to housing developments in Roxbury four afternoons a week to tutor and mentor children ages five to 13. More than 80 Mission Hill supporters attended last night’s meeting, in an attempt to influence the council, according to Jonathan B.C. Tannen ’07, one of Mission Hill’s directors. “If we don?...
...stranger to wiseguy connections. In their 1996 book, Gotti: Rise and Fall, Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain identified her as the don's girlfriend. Connelly's ex-husband Ernesto Grillo was her alleged paramour's underling. And her mother Rosemary has long been identified as the goumada of Gotti mentor Aniello Dellacroce--with Connelly as their supposed love child...
...Coady, who lives in Edmonton, grew up in Cape Breton and writes with authority about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...
...Students Association Nneka C. Eze ’07, who is an economics concentrator, said she believes that one way to increase the pool of black professorial economics candidates would be to institute a mentorship program for black economics students. “Whether it’s a mentor-mentee relationship, or conducting research, just having contact with an economist lets you see what it’s about,” she said. “If you don’t have this option early on, black students will not see graduate school as a viable option...
...have a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, you can’t work for Starbucks,” Maats says. After being rejected by the gourmet coffee trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like...