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...include large populations of minorities, students from single parent families or who are the first in their families to attend college, and low income students that four-year colleges seek to recruit to increase diversity, according to Wyner. But many private top-tier colleges, such as Harvard, are not reaching out to encourage applications from community colleges.Community college students at Harvard commented that applying to the college was a decision that they had to research on their own. Besselle, a former Vista Community College student in California, and Joseph K. Cooper ’07, a graduate of Florida?...
Only 41 years old, the New Hampshire Republican is the youngest member of the Senate, but that hasn't limited his reach. Sununu played a major role this year on the lobbying-reform legislation, and he got the Bush Administration to make some crucial changes in the Patriot Act before he voted to reauthorize it. The son of former White House chief of staff John H. Sununu, he has become a well-respected fiscal conservative, last fall calling for cuts in nearly every part of the budget to offset spending for Hurricane Katrina...
...structure. Even a critic like Jorde concedes that if Wal-Mart were to offer savings accounts and consumer loans at its usual rock-bottom prices, "the cost of banking services would decline, and consumers would say, 'This is great.'" Wal-Mart would also be in a good position to reach the 10 million households in the U.S. that don't use a bank account, says John Caskey, a professor of economics at Swarthmore and expert on the "unbanked." The company has already punctured the high cost of check cashing, which hits the unbanked hardest, by offering the service...
...followed 11 months later. But Nicole Laws ’06, president of ABHW said that Matory’s vocal criticism of Summers was not the reason he was honored at this year’s ceremony. “Matory was chosen because of his willingness to reach beyond his own work and research,” Laws said. Saturday’s ceremony also honored six undergraduates and one local high school student for their contributions to the black community. The event’s purpose, Matory said, was “telling [honorees] they have done...
...play’s reach should exceed its grasp, then director Robert Woodruff’s “Orpheus X,” at the Zero Arrow Theatre, playing through April 23, is a triumph. Told in words, music, writing, song, projected images, and one climactic, devastating silence, the operatic play is hugely ambitious and completely unique. It is, however, more interesting than it is entertaining, at times overreaching to the point of inaccessibility. Written by and starring Rinde Eckert, “Orpheus X,” an American Repertory world premiere, updates the well-known myth...