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Clinton's goal for America is that everyone be able to read, which is why only the literacy programs offered by PBHA and the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program will be paid. But the new program's immediate benefit, i.e. money, goes to Harvard students. In a trickle-down process, we seem to be hoping that by encouraging the participation of students on work-study who might not be able to afford volunteering, more elementary school-aged children will learn to read. This is not very realistic; we don't think the program will lead to a massive influx...
...garden of their estate, the light and airy pastels of the scenery form an ideal backdrop for the light-hearted dancing and the lovely innocence of young Tatiana (Larissa Ponamarenko), who is absorbed in a book. With the arrival of Olga's lover, Lensky, the young couple dance with neighborhood friends. Lensky is accompanied by his friend Onegin (Laszlo Berdo), a handsome Russian nobleman clad in black, with whom Tatiana immediately falls in love. That evening Tatiana composes a love letter to Onegin, and falls asleep only to dream of him coming to her through the mirror in her room...
Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...
...violent outbreak of disorder which ensued in the Crown Heights neighborhood has been described as "race riots" (Boston Globe) and symptomatic of a "deep racial divide" (New York Times). These terms are inappropriate because the victims were victimized specifically because of their religion and not their race. It somehow eases the consciences and sensibilities of some if they can portray a problem as a racial, rather than an anti-Semitic, one. For some, persecution of the Jews has become a cliche from which they would rather shy away...
Harvard's Student Employment Office (SEO) has received federal funding for literacy projects run by PBHA and by the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program as part of America's Reading Challenge--Clinton's effort to promote literacy among grade-school students, Bahat said...