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...Donald Trump’s kids won’t go to jail.” “Money talks, and bullshit walks,” she added, referring to what she said was a common prison slogan. Williams now works for On the Rise, a Cambridge organization that helps women in crisis. Hall said she was convicted of second degree murder in September 1994 after killing her “batterer” of seven years. “The issue of unemployement seems to be one of the major barriers facing those right out of prison...
...shut down for almost three weeks. People came out more from that frustration than want of democracy,” said Basnyat, who added that his father is a career diplomat. “People have no food to eat. The capital has been blockaded, causing food prices to rise. The price of oil is astronomical and people do not have work.” Basnyat also said he fears that current conditions will lead to chaos if the king is forced to leave completely.“The king is the only one who can unite the army...
...thoughts at the time. Students planned a rally and a concert in Sanders Theatre to raise over $10,000 that the University would then match for additional scholarships, historian Morton Keller said yesterday. Keller and his wife Phyllis are the authors of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University.” In 1938, the Harvard Corporation established 20 scholarships of $500 for refugees who had fled Nazi Europe, according to the Kellers’ book. Still, Morton Keller said, Harvard could have done more to help Jewish refugees, who composed the majority...
...Brendan Byrne, the park brought back memories of his father, a policeman who used to bring young Jim Byrne to the park when he was on duty during games. In those days, Byrne remembered, the park routinely had only 5,000 fans on hand, although the attendance began to rise after the 1967 Impossible Dream season. After spending years in his teens as a vendor at Fenway, it seemed that things had finally come full circle for Byrne, now a proud father of a Harvard team leader. The younger Byrne, who is recovering from season-ending surgery on his meniscus...
...coming years, Shu, like so many other Americans of Chinese descent, watched the economic rise of China with keen interest. He had been born in Hong Kong but left for suburban New York City with his parents when he was just a toddler, making him, as he puts it, "thoroughly Americanized-more Woody Allen than anything else." The stint with Goldman in Hong Kong had rekindled his interest in China, however, and though his career brought him back to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the lure of what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years...