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...year-old brother, Marvin, to a friend's house, where they both drank too much holiday cheer. On the way home, Junior struck and dragged a neighbor's garbage can noisily down the street before turning into the Bush driveway. The elder Bush asked his son to step into the den. Junior, who recalls being drunk and belligerent as they entered the study, was ready to pick a fight. 'I hear you're looking for me,' he shouted at his father, 'You want to go mano a mano right here?' Both men were suddenly in each other's face, screaming...
...British child who matriculates takes one step nearer to a class ghetto, whether the gated community, the neatly clipped suburb or the council tower block. Nicola's nursery mates are no exception: the Bentley babies have since decamped to schools that charge fees of about $22,000 a year. Those parents pious or savvy enough to attend church have a shot at getting their kids into a state-funded religious school, for decades a refuge of the aspirational classes. Rising private-school fees - up over 40% in the last five years - have triggered a groundswell of faithful behavior...
...Harvard is not a developer for building affordable housing,” Stockard said. “By choosing a firm that has a reputation for addressing community concerns, they have taken the first step in being responsible...
...Recently, Harvard took the symbolic step of unifying all its environmental efforts under the umbrella of the Office For Sustainability (OFS), which reports directly to Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst. OFS has the power to make sure that the university’s actions to encourage social embrace of environmentalism are in line with its words. The university should seize this momentum to inspire an environemtnal conscience in its community. The enduring mission after the Sustainability Celebration ought to be ensuring that this spotlight on environmental responsibility doesn?...
...about the dangers of malaria, stressed the need to take action. “Its important to plan an idea, but you must actually go into the field,” Sengeh said. “We could have waited, and waited and waited, but we took the first step and tried.” At the Queen’s Head Pub, students and community members distributed information about tangible contributions that students could make to poverty relief, including selling locally made beads and going on service trips to Africa. The rally was sponsored by the Youth Alliance...