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When Patricia Rincon ’08’s parents lost their jobs during her sophomore year of high school, her college prospects didn’t seem too bright. With a combined income of around $20,000, her family had more urgent things to think about than higher education...
...There was no way my parents could pay $40,000 per year for college,” Rincon says. “Even at a local school, it would have been hard.” So when she landed in Boston last September as a Harvard freshman, it was, all told, a pretty unexpected turn of events...
...Rincon is a Mexican-American student from Century High, an inner-city school in the predominantly low-income city of Santa Ana, Calif. The first person from Century to come to Harvard, she is precisely the kind of student that the University has been targeting under the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI)—a flagship program that could drastically alter the socioeconomic makeup of the undergraduate population...
...avoid the midday heat. But despite those inconveniences--and in part because of them--they have developed a deep love of the desert in the five years since they moved here. Twenty miles from Tucson, their house looks out on a plain of saguaro cacti stretching to the Rincon Mountains. At night the stars shine brightly without competition from human lighting. Paul, 68, a semiretired software developer, gets all the hiking and bike riding he wants, and Carolyn attends lectures to learn how to grow desert plants in their yard. "You have to learn to adjust in the desert," says...
...this staff off with Ricardo Rincon, Chad Bradford and Keith Foulke, and you’ve got an underrated bullpen that may have the goods to defeat a Red Sox lineup that posted record-setting offensive numbers this season. Just please, no Jim Mecir. If this guy gets into a game, the A’s have given up. He’s a home run waiting to happen...