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The Haitian Alliance also awarded its first annual scholarship to two high school students. The scholarship, organized by the Alliance's financial co-chairs, Emmanuelle M. Fleurinor '97 and M. Astrid Moise '95, is dedicated "pour l'avancement du progres," or for the advancement of Haitian-American progress.

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Festival Highlights Haitian Culture | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

"There are problems with monitoring affirmative action," Dean Rosovsky says. "When we see that a department's not making satisfactory progres, we make inquiries and ask for an explanation. If the explanation is not satisfactory, then I have to act."

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin and Nicholas Lemann, S | Title: Learning To Live With Hiring Reforms | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

AMERICANS SHOULD confront their own past and realize how violence has removed obstructions to social change. Armed struggle freed America from colonial servility, liberated the slaves and mid-wifed the birth of the labor movement. Although violence was not exclusively seen as a tactic by which to achieve progres, it...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Revolutionary Violence: The Lessons of Vietnam | 2/10/1973 | See Source »

Volunteering for Progress. They will find many kindred spirits already at work. Norway, which claims that it was the first to copy President Kennedy's Peace Corps idea, has teams in Uganda. Similar programs have been initiated by Canada, Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Peace Corps Everywhere | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

In Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Death to Double Letters | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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