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...were not party people.”Nevertheless, Leder recalls late night pitstops to Elsie’s, “a sandwich place which made a terrific roast beef.”After graduation, Leder enrolled in Harvard Medical School where he got his M.D.Given the socio-political climate of the sixties, Leder chose to join the National Institute of Health (NIH) to avoid the draft. Once in Bethesda, Leder wound up in Marshall W. Nirenberg’s lab, where he and others established the critical link between messenger RNA and protein, allowing scientists for the first time...
...going to have very different goals in the label. So if a Latina magazine says that I'm a Latina writer, that's okay with me because I think they understand that that's a very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York that said something like, Valdes-Rodriguez is bringing the Third World just what it needs - chick lit. I thought, what about me is Third World? This person did not understand. And when...
Harvard’s educational framework descended from the days when Oxford and Cambridge certified the British aristocracy for lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students’ ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...
...medicine), and then there will be social chaos (with youth on the streets, non-functioning schools, social violence rising with unemployment and insecurity, and absence of effective law enforcement). After a while, the Hamas-led government might collapse. But by that point, the Palestinians will already be in a socio-economic hell—and they will blame their torturous descent not on their government but on the international community that punished them for making a democratic choice. ELIZABETH M. PRICE ’95 San Francisco, Calif. April...
...that serve thousands more students in the future,” said Joshua Wyner, Vice President of Programs at the foundation. The schools and the foundation see this program as necessary because only 10 percent of students at the most selective colleges come from the bottom half of the socio-economic scale, while 75 percent come from the top quarter, according to the foundation. Additionally, the statement also noted that the 6.5 million students currently enrolled in community college students comprise about 45 percent of all students who receive college degrees. “Selective schools are expensive, community colleges...