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Obama referred to Sotomayor's "qualities" and "qualifications," but he was a lot more interested in the former than the latter. She grew up in the South Bronx, got diabetes at 8, lost her father at 9 and fought her way to Princeton and the federal bench thanks to a strong-willed mother who procured the "only set of encyclopedias in the neighborhood." She has "a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live." Obama has spoken of wanting judges with "empathy...
...eight years ago as an RA, raiding rooms in my apartment complex for espresso machines and other appliances that had been left behind.) Some come in search of academic items, others the purely recreational. This month, for example, a teen walking past a collection site for discarded goods at Princeton University picked up a toy gun that soon afterward was mistaken for the real thing, setting off an emergency response that resulted in a half-hour campus lockdown. (See TIME's photos from a public boarding school...
...junk problem at most colleges doesn't usually rise to that level of drama. It's more a persistent, slow-burning question: What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...
...enthusiasm for the material,” said former student and thesis advisee Andrew C. Coles ’09. Carpio arrived at Harvard in 2002, following the widely-publicized departure of African American studies Professors K. Anthony Appiaha and Cornel R. West ’74 for Princeton the previous year. She quickly built a reputation as a student favorite, both for her engaging lectures and her accessibility to undergraduates outside the classroom. Carpio’s colleagues and teaching fellows described her as warm and sensitive. “I’ve noticed that students who have...
...When I was considering transferring during my freshman year of college, I looked with disdain upon Princeton when I learned that it was— at the time—the only other Ivy League school that did not accept transfer students. I thought that it represented a brand of elitism that was unique to Princeton. That school remains Harvard’s only Ivy League partner-in-crime in this decision. And, outside of the Ivy League, top schools like Stanford, Duke, the University of Chicago, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore all accept transfer students. Harvard should be as concerned...