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...They want to come to Harvard, Yale, Princeton so they can get out of the 'hood, not so they can make avenues that lead back into the 'hood," he said. "Do they owe anything to the hood or is it every person for himself...
...owe some of that calm to the turbulence he was as an undergraduate at Harvard. He was 18 years old when he moved into Pennypacker Hall in the stormy fall of 1969. Rowe now is lean and graying and settled, with a wife and two small children...
...issue were back taxes on the money that the nation's largest senior citizen organization made from royalties on insurance, mail-order prescription drugs and other products that used the AARP name in their marketing. The AARP stressed that its payment did not imply any admission that it would owe taxes on such income in the future. Nevertheless, the settlement sent a chill through the non-profit world, where the AARP scheme is an oft-used money-maker...
This story may be in part autobiographical (Lee wrote it with his sister Joie Susannah and his brother Cinque), but the characters and their situation also owe something to 1945's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in which an immigrant family offered similar characters, though not so large a family, facing the same basic problems: clinging to their respectability and trying to make certain the kids grow up smart, honest and able to claim a surer place for themselves in the world...
...owe a lot to the workers of Harvard,"Feiock said. "The growing practice of employers,including Harvard, in employing part-time workersto reduce costs in unfair...