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...Associates, a small employment agency in Providence, R.I. The office sits about four blocks from the downtown foot traffic, and new clients looking for job placement tended to call ahead for information or appointments. But lately people are appearing at the door on the off chance that an in-person cold call will quickly lead to work in an area hard hit by rising unemployment. "All of a sudden in 2008, people are just coming in blindly," says Kerry Tracey, founder and president of the firm. "From brick layers and carpenters to attorneys...
...just before noon. The 20-year-old’s parents arrived in Cambridge later that afternoon from their home in Pittsburgh and spent the evening with their son’s friends in Adams House. A shocked collection of friends remembered the aspiring doctor’s winning personality. “He was an inspiring person, deeply committed to science and medicine, but also very kind,” said Michelle C. Siao ’09, who worked in professor Thomas P. Maniatis’s lab along with...
...mine made a heartfelt confession. I’d known it was coming, and I was prepared to offer support. I swaddled her shoulders in a rainbow blanket, played Elton John softly in the background, and reassured her that no matter what, she would always be the same person. This was only one small facet of her personality, and it wouldn’t change the way we thought about her. If anything, we would love her more for her honesty...
...particular, the actions of University President Drew Gilpin Faust were laudable, as she used the power of her presidential office to build enthusiasm for Wednesday’s celebration, and then lent the weight of her person to the proceedings, introducing Vice President Gore. It is encouraging to see Harvard’s central administration take the lead on this crucial issue, especially since it is one that requires an interdisciplinary approach that can only be achieved through coordinating the actions of the University’s many disparate parts...
...grim law and order—a concept does not jive with the camaraderie of football in any way, even on the gridiron itself.Students understand the motives for these new restrictions. The Harvard-Yale tailgate in 2004 is best remembered as a “10,000-person bacchanalia with some students ‘doing anything and everything’ to guzzle hard liquor,” as a Crimson staff writer reported at the time. That said, administrators should be wary of over-regulating against a potential repeat of these transgressions. At Yale?...