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...teenagers - many as young as 13 - had little formal schooling and few future prospects. Most spent their days at the Mathare Youth Sports Association, an activity center which agreed to house Wong's classes. Yet amidst their grim surroundings, the youth captured humor and beauty in their photos. Peter Ndolo, now 21, one of eight children, photographed a boy clutching a bright yellow daisy, which fills almost the entire frame except for a glimpse of zinc-roofed shacks. At 14, Julius Mwelu snapped a bare-chested boy in shimmering boxing shorts flexing his adolescent biceps in front of his rickety...
...Economic changes over the past three decades - many the result of government decisions - have "left working families up and down much of the income spectrum living with fewer economic protections, bearing more economic risk, chancing steeper financial falls," writes Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Gosselin in his new book High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families. This Great Risk Shift from governments and corporations to individuals, as Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker labeled it in the title of another book on the subject, has become one of the defining economic realities of our age. Some aspects...
...Adamov Memorial Fund to assist blind people in Russia, said he admired AKDN’s ability to offer such a “wide scope of activities” while still “respecting and operating within these cultures.” —Staff writer Peter Zhu can be reached pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Lebone Solutions. The device was designed by a team of six students and alumni, including Van Vuuren, Fabry, Stephen H. Lwendo ’10, David M. Sengeh ’10, Zoe Sachs-Arellano ’07, and graduate student Aviva Presser. Professors David A. Edwards and Peter R. Girguis advised the project. Van Vuuren, who is from Pretoria, South Africa, said the privilege of a Harvard education becomes starkly apparent every time he returns home, reminding him again of the mission of the project. “We live charmed lives at Harvard...
...thinkers of the modern era,” said Sayed Naveed, who added that he appreciated the fact that an immigrant like Zakaria was able to become “one of the foremost thinkers in American foreign policy.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...