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...three months in Ghana after high school doing service work, Cohen returned to the West African country fall semester of junior year to broaden her view since she’d only experienced a tiny portion of the sub-Saharan country. Where she had previously lived in a poor rural village, Cohen found herself in an area where Passats lined the street across from the university where she studied. The sociology concentrator, who grew up in Washington, DC, also chose to go to “a predominantly black high school in a predominantly white area” and learned...
...Newman says that universities like Harvard are very unlikely places to experience rampage shootings such as the one in Blacksburg. Her research on school violence has found that most of the reported instances of school shootings have occurred in “highly conformist” and isolated rural areas where there are few alternatives for students who feel isolated from the primary social groups. Because of Harvard’s “cosmopolitan” setting, the possibility for violence is much less, she says...
...said. “And in terms of what is important to people who are graduating—Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which he won jointly with his wife, came in 1990 for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. According to Yiting Shen, a member of the KSG Class...
...India, that means investing in systems that retailers take for granted in other countries. To ensure refrigeration units keep humming during the country's frequent power outages, Reliance is installing diesel generators not only in all its shops but also at its rural collection hubs, where farmers bring their produce, and at its processing centers, which usually sit on the outskirts of a city. A reliable supply of safe water in which to wash fruits and vegetables is also a basic necessity. Because city water often runs dry and can carry dangerous bacteria, Reliance has installed reverse-osmosis machines...
...Thousands of children flooded out of La Paz schools early Wednesday morning chanting "Let us play!," while police units did aerobics in the park. President Evo Morales and his "team" (cabinet members and former Bolivian pros who often join him in friendly matches against local teams in rural villages) played a quadruple-header, including three games in the 11,735-ft.-high national stadium. Many of the spectators sported a T-shirt depicting a victorious Morales standing on a soccer field above the words "Bolivia is Soccer"; on the back, "No to the Veto; Yes to Sports...