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When Melecio Penafiel wanted to expand his tailoring shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador, last May, he didn't go to the bank or ask his relatives for help. His seed money arrived via the Internet. Using the website Kiva.org a Bay Area software engineer named Nathan Folkert lent Penafiel the $500 he needed to buy two new sewing machines, fabrics and thread for higher-quality suits. Folkert has never met Penafiel but says making the loan "felt like I was giving him a shot at the American Dream...
...sophomore middle hitter Brady Weissbourd, who earned his second Hay Division Player of the Week nod this season. Weissbourd is fifth in the EIVA in blocks per game (1.24) and stands seventh in hitting percentage (.424).Another key player in Harvard’s two victories was sophomore Jeff Nathan, as he tallied 22 digs between the two matches. After junior Brian Rapp was unable to play as a result of his ACL injury, Nathan stepped in at libero.“Jeff Nathan was outstanding,” co-captain Dave Fitz said. “He was digging...
...many reasons to be enthusiastic about the ascension of Drew G. Faust to the presidency of Harvard, but for me, the most important feature of President-elect Faust is that she has spent her entire adult life as an active scholar. She is not a long-time administrator like Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was. Her scholarship was not mixed with public service or a Brahmin legal career. She is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, one-hundred-percent academic, who has spent her life creating knowledge and disseminating it through writing and teaching...
...When Nathan M. Pusey ’28 ascended to the Harvard presidency in 1953, Joseph McCarthy was beginning his second term as the junior senator from Wisconsin. Pusey was a respected academic from Lawrence College; McCarthy, an opportunistic demagogue spreading jingoism across postwar America. The two men had little to do with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism...
...people of other ethnicities and I haven’t seen that a lot. It is easy to fall into the trap where you say this is a community that celebrates a certain ethnicity, but it’s actually only celebrated by that ethnicity.” Although Nathan P. Whitfield ’09, who is a member of the BSA, acknowledges the importance of ethnic and cultural groups, he worries that students who spend a lot of time devoted to their racial community often “get into the habit of sticking with these groups...