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...come from a family earning over $96,000 a year, your odds of getting a bachelor's degree by age 24 are 1 in 2. If you come from a family earning under $36,000, it's 1 in 17. People at the top of the income scale pass down the skills one needs to thrive in this economy to their kids who get into Harvard--where the median student comes from a family making $150,000 a year--and they go on to an affluent suburb. And they pass it down, so you get really good public high schools...
...eschewing the sort of broadly defined presidential status reports that had once been a time-honored tradition at Harvard before Summers’ time. Having identified outreach and collegiality as key themes of his presidency in the new school year, the letter represented Summers’ first large-scale effort toward that end. His spokesman, John Longbrake, said the letter was “an invitation for further dialogue” with the Harvard community...
...voluntarily moved in the banlieue, and few could ever scale the invisible barriers to departure thrown up by deplorable education levels and the unlikelihood of finding work. Periodic efforts to fix the banlieue have been launched repeatedly over the years, but the fecklessness of such initiatives-and the underlying attitudes of the wider society that views as alien even France-born and -raised banlieusards-failed to halt further festering. This month's violence appears to finally have driven home the message that the crisis of the banlieue can no longer be ignored...
...combined a wide variety of inputs—including excerpts from music pieces, recorded speeches, and even live narration with a series of danced vignettes that loosely traced the history of genocide from the Holocaust to Rwanda to, literally, today’s news. Impassioned solos that explored large-scale rape, the search for forensic evidence of genocide, and the emotional experience of the judge who presided over the Nuremberg trials were subtle reminders of the range of personal experiences of those touched by genocide. This range of emotional response was extended when the narrator, dancer Peter DiMuro, turned...
...four workshops on nutrition, yoga, body images, and track and tennis, as well as a panel and lunch. Harvard students involved with the Girls’ FitNut program and Project HEALTH ran the workshop on nutrition, which emphasized the concept of balance in a healthy lifestyle. A makeshift scale was used to illustrate the need to balance the energy required for exercise and everyday activity with the energy provided by food. In the yoga workshop, Deborah R. Cohen ’91, a yoga teacher, taught the girls exercises for energy and relaxation. Some exercises were also intended to convey...