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...says Sam to Freddie during their first long night in a boxcar. But now, he says, "there's no place left to escape to, except places we already run off from." Sam's pessimistic take on the future also pertains to Freddie's plan to travel to Detroit in search of his father. This odyssey takes them across America's underclass, from farmsteads to cities and back again, in a swath that includes all colors and backgrounds...
...They do not realize that 70 percent of our students are on financial aid. They do not realize that the majority of our students come from public schools. They are often surprised at the extent of racial and ethnic diversity on campus.” IN SEARCH OF STUDENTSThree years ago, Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) Vice-President Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 traveled to his native Brooklyn, recruiting for UMRP for the first time. Hutchinson, who identifies with the Taino native community, hoped to talk to other Native Americans about Harvard. The job was more difficult...
...month. But if tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States from Guatemala 20 years ago, following her mother to Massachusetts in search of work. Now employed by a medical company in Bedford, Mass., the single mother moved from nearby Everett Street to Charlesview three years ago with her two children, aged 16 and 20, attracted by the low rent and proximity to schools and public transportation. “I don’t feel like...
...wants to answer. He is the faculty director of Harvard’s recently christened optical telescope, which scans the skies for extraterrestrial life from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion,” says Andrew W. Howard, a graduate student working on the project. So they’re not searching...
...engineering sciences concentrator just finished his senior thesis project: wireless glasses that let the user chat on his cell through the earpiece. And the Mather resident isn’t stopping there. Rapoport intends on improving his invention by adding a video projector to the glasses to view Internet searches and text messages on the lenses themselves. Even without that extra feature, though, Rapoport is already on his way to early retirement. A 2002 Intel Science Talent Search winner and CEO of his own acoustic engineering firm LONO, Rapoport has earned his bragging rights. LONO, also run by Nicholas...