Word: suburb
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...don’t know how it feels to be forced to your rooftop and be stranded for days....Though the initial disaster has passed, the real relief work has yet to begin.” Perry Tsai ’07, whose home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie was badly damaged, led the Harvard LowKeys in an a capella arrangement of Des’ree’s “You Gotta Be,” helping to raise money for the city his parents and sister are struggling to live in. Usually he performs...
...point very relevant to discussions over economic diversity here at Harvard. In an assessment of economic diversity, I would initially seem to be a member of the privileged elite that is undoubtedly so over-represented here. After all, I went to a private school, I reside in a nice suburb just outside a major East Coast city, and I do not receive any financial aid from Harvard. I would imagine, then, that most people would be rather surprised by my family’s rather humble background. I, and many others like me, do not attend Harvard on the largess...
...niceties. There are cupholders that can handle a grande latte, and there's an integrated bottle opener. (What, no corkscrew?) Coolest feature: you can plug your iPod into the audio system through a connection in the glove box. More important, the R-Class is as roomy as a suburb, even if the exterior design fails to excite. TIME's backseat test passenger--all 6 ft. 8 in. of him--hadn't had that much room in a car since he was 10 years younger and a foot shorter. And there's an optional rear roof window, adding to the roomy...
This season Bruckheimer tries to go six for six, with an almost frighteningly astute twist on his procedural formula. In Close to Home (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan) is a prosecutor and new mom who works on horrible cases in a leafy suburb. She has just returned from maternity leave--we first see her being awakened by her crying baby--but gets little support from her career-focused co-workers. "You have got to stop making decisions with your hormones," her (female) boss warns her. But her mom status is also an asset to her department, giving...
Monday, Oct. 31. “Come Back to Afghanistan: A Californian Teenager’s Story.” Hyder Akbar was a teen living in a suburb of San Francisco before his father became Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top spokesman. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...