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...make that money, however, students like Nembhard need to get their degrees - and the statistics are disheartening. Only 31% of community-college students who set out to get a degree complete it within six years, whereas 58% of students at four-year schools graduate within that time frame. Students from middle-class or wealthy families are nearly five times more likely to earn a college degree as their poorer peers are. In 2007, 66% of white Americans ages 25 to 29 had completed at least some college, compared with 50% of African Americans and 34% of Hispanics...
...leading man. But he was intent on being the best second lead there was. He had so many wonderful roles, in films from A Streetcar Named Desire--for which he won an Oscar--to On the Waterfront. He was an amazing reactor. For San Francisco, we were on location six days a week, and Karl used to pull me aside to work on our lines for the next week so that we would have them memorized for the first rehearsal...
UPDATED: 1:45 A.M. Jocelyn G. Karlan '12, a Harvard student who had been tutoring children in Ecuador for nearly six weeks and was reported missing Sunday morning during a hike in the Andes mountains, was found by a helicopter and rescued Monday evening, her mother said in an interview with The Crimson. "They're all a bit beaten up, dehydrated and exhausted," she said. "Jocey had some scrapes but nothing that required a hospital visit...she's back in the hostel...
Leblanc is one of six drafted players on the Crimson, including Biega, who was selected by the Buffalo Sabres and senior Doug Rogers, who was picked by the New York Islanders. The last Crimson player taken in the first round was Chis Biotti...
...Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a homegrown terrorist network, has advocated targeting Westerners in the past, as it did to deadly effect during the 2002 and '05 bombings on the resort island of Bali and a previous assault on the same Jakarta Marriott six years ago. In the latest hotel attack, Indonesian police are now fingering a possible splinter group of JI run by a Malaysian operative named Noordin Top, who has evaded capture for several years...