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...soon-to-be graduate of Cornell Law, Lee hoped to break into Boston’s white-shoe legal firms where spots were traditionally reserved for white male graduates of Harvard Law School—not modest Asian kids from Philadelphia...
...modest number of people attended the Cambridge City Council meeting last night to urge the passing of a calendar item and a policy order...
...atrocious at learning lines. The music is fine—that just happens—but Gilbert and Sullivan lines are all from the 1870s, so they’re a little bit convoluted.” But this is just Nelson being modest; by opening night, the lines are already learned, the ceiling is in place, and everyone’s in costume, waiting for an audience...
...neighbor China and bodes ill for its long-term development. New Delhi plans to pump $38 billion into the education sector over the next five years, but the government has much to deliver as it tries to reconcile India's vast social inequities. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of modest origins himself, knows the struggle is worth it: "I am what I am because of education...
Custo, Maccoby, and the three Committee co-chairs all asserted that there is not always a correlation between financial status and commitment to donate at the Associates level. Wealthy students may not have an inclination to give, and in recent years, students from more modest means have both made Associates-level gifts and served on the Associates Committee...