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...Harvard provides official avenues for employees to voice complaints of discrimination, Raj has hit several roadblocks and in the meantime has faced threats and intimidation. Last April, on the day of Raj’s scheduled meeting between his union representative, his supervisor at HMDC, and Human Resources, a stranger approached Raj inside a building where he was working and threatened him by name. According to Raj, the man said, “Ravi Raj, you have chosen the wrong path and the wrong union. You should watch out.” Such an action is despicable for its cowardly...
...these things help to reduce the culture shock that a new immigrant may feel in America," says Imam Hassan Qazwini, who leads the Islamic Center of America, Dearborn's biggest mosque. "In Dearborn, you don't feel like a stranger...
...July appointment as interim dean, Gorodentsev served as chief of staff to former Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82, who left in August. Gorodentsev—who has worked at the University for more than ten years—is “no stranger to Harvard,” as FAS Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in an e-mailed statement to faculty and staff.“I don’t consider myself an academic,” said Gorodentsev, who has served in administrative posts in the controller’s office...
What is a consequential stranger? If you look at the relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond strangers and just short of friends. When people say they have 765 friends on Facebook, most of them are consequential strangers. Your hairdresser is probably a consequential stranger. Your lawyer may be. The person who comes in to clean your house and who has been doing it for 30 years might be a close consequential stranger. But you also have a lot of people on the periphery: the nice woman in accounting whom...
...about the context in which they occur. If you just think of yourself walking through the bad part of town, you're on guard, your shoulders are up near your ears, your heart might be beating a little bit faster, you're not exactly open to having conversations with strangers. But if you're in a welcoming, safe environment, whether it's a store or a park or the barbershop where you know some people or the tavern on the corner, you're more likely to open up to a stranger. And, of course, all relationships develop from stranger...