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...result, the program “challenges the notions we have about human value,” says Bonsey. But even with the program’s regulations and difficulties, relationships with prisoners occasionally continue in surprising and inspiring ways: “I had a crazy moment actually this week, when I was on the bus back from prison, and the woman that I tutored last year got on the bus,” Bonsey says. “We were just hugging and laughing. She looked great. She told...
...struggle for gender equality.” “Rape is no longer a weapon of war,” he said. “It is a strategy of war...In my own view there is nothing more grotesque happening in this world at this moment.” After describing atrocities that are being committed in countries like Liberia and South Africa, he said, “I can’t believe that I’m witnessing this...and the whole world knows and does virtually nothing...
...dark leaves little to see anyway, I would have very little to write about.However, in our first trip to the Harvard-Cornell match-up, we were able to pick out a number of other “firsts” during the roadtrip experience. The biggest of such moments came when the snow began to come down outside of Syracuse, something that can turn a leisurely six hour drive beside pastoral farms into a 10 mile-per-hour crawl down a road where you cannot even identify the lane in which you’re driving. Encountering one of Central...
...said yesterday that payroll employment is the strongest indicator in determining the highest point of economic activity. The measure reached a peak last December and has declined every month since then. “This doesn’t provide new information on where the economy is at this moment,” Poterba said. “This is really a determination of the turning point—and we don’t know when the next turning point may be.” The announcement marks the first official recession since 2001, when the economy took...
...January 20, the day of the inauguration, is in the middle of the College’s final exam period, and Zampardo happens to have a test that day, one that counts for 40 percent of his grade for the class and may prevent him from witnessing a significant moment in American history. The class? Government 1540: “The American Presidency.” Over 2,000 undergraduates are set to sit for exams on January 20 for almost 40 different classes. Several of them who hoped to go down to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration have...