Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, there exists an even more compelling reason to give to an alternative endowment. The revelation that the dean of the Kennedy School formally offered potential donors Officer of the University status in return for a donation make clear that something stinks in Harvard's attitude toward fundraising, and it's not just the fertilizer used to ensure that, come Commencement, the Yard will be green with grass and the cash of nostalgic alumni...
...outside Houston's Immigration and Naturalization Service office had camped overnight with blankets and lawn chairs. At the Dallas INS office, a pregnant Hispanic woman stepped out of line into a bathroom and went into labor. Throughout the U.S. last month, 200,000 aliens rushed to apply for legal status before a yearlong amnesty program expires on May 4. To qualify, they must prove they were residing in the U.S. before...
...ladder is runner, a job that can pay more than $300 a day. This is the youngster who transports the drugs to the dealers on the street from the makeshift factories where cocaine powder is cooked into rock-hard crack. Finally, an enterprising young man graduates to the status of dealer, king of the street. In a hot market like New York City, an aggressive teenage dealer can make...
...sense of worthlessness, Kazan says, is what drove him. It stemmed from his foreignness (he immigrated to the U.S. with his Greek parents when he was four); his lack of social status at Williams College, which he worked his way through as a fraternity-house waiter; and his lack of visible talent at the Yale Drama School. He acquired his nickname, Gadget (latterly Gadg), because the Group Theater people found him such a handy little guy to have around, "doing whatever I had to do to gain the tolerance, the friendship, and the protection of the authority figures...
...commission also plans to hold a series of workshops on other types of discrimination, such as prejudice over marital status, sexual orientation or source of income. Landlords are often reluctant to rent to welfare recipients, added Jonathan L. Handel '82, former chairman of the Human Rights Commission...