Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gelin was in the process of helping friends search for homes, so Foshko went house browsing in her Georgetown neighborhood...
Despite this long-held assumption, I was still inspired and impressed by my experience this week observing the English as a Second Language class taught by Erica J. LeBow '01. Lebow, a joint English and Sociology concentrator, is one of 35 Harvard students involved in Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN). This Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) program offers free adult education classes in English as a second language (ESL), computers, math and reading/writing to residents of the Fresh Pond Housing Development in Cambridge and the Bromley Heath neighborhood in Jamaica Plain...
...years ago, a colleague and I asked Bill Clinton if he'd ever been in a fistfight. Yes, the President said, he'd been in a scrap in the eighth grade, when he was being hassled by a neighborhood bully who was smaller than Clinton but had been after him for some time. Clinton felt sorry for the boy--he had problems at home. Clinton didn't want to hit him and tried to ignore him. But one day, after being bothered by the boy for half an hour, Clinton hauled off and smacked...
Hoff is also the co-House coordinator of theHouse and Neighborhood Development (HAND) programat Quincy House. Last summer she worked with theAcademy Homes Summer Youth Enrichment Program,which is a PBHA program...
...between students living on the river and the Quad. The Quad Houses are seen as more insular and more comfortable than River cousins. Likewise, while Grafton Street can get a bit impersonal, Lee says at Temple Bar, "the atmosphere is more conversational and friendly... with more people from the neighborhood." This mature congregation, molded into leather-boothed intimacy and cushioned by chenille pillow comfort, makes for a less frenzied, mellower mood...