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...gained. My parents will accrue a very substantial debt in order to send me here, and they meet the tuition payments only as a result of careful planning and foresight. In the current discussions over economic diversity, however, my family would be lumped along with families to which forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket or a typical deposit into a bank account. The family experiences that people from backgrounds similar to mine bring to Harvard are valuable and worthy, but are also extremely hard to quantify or nail down. All too often in the office of financial...
...show.The music started to spiral in the last few songs. The vortex left the dancers so dizzy they could only jump. And just when it felt never-ending, the band rushed off stage, begging an encore and teasing the masses. Not a minute later, to the thundering of a thousand palms, they rushed back on with Dr. Dog (the opening artist, who looked like Kid Rock as a Parliament backup dancer) in tow.With the instruments finally almost outnumbered, together, the musicians launched into “Do the Whirlwind.” Rising a meter from the ground, The shoes...
...alma mater’s center had—just not in one place,” says McLoughlin, a graduate of the University of Miami-Ohio.The Hilles space, slated to open next fall, is intended as a solution to the space squeeze faced by student groups. Forty-five thousand square feet on the top three floors of the library will become the locus of student groups. The College plans to build office space as well as communal spaces where groups can hold meetings or just hang out.With Hilles complete, even more space will open. Thirty-seven student groups now have...
...While Bush tries to recover, he's likely to face criticism from a number of fronts. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday. Organizers say Saturday's 10th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March, which brought several hundred thousand African-Americans to Washington a decade ago, will focus on poverty and the federal government's failures in alleviating that problem, as illustrated by Hurricane Katrina. Senators George Allen and Sam Brownback, both of whom have been actively signaling they will run for the Republican nomination for president...
...that is a fraction of the likely final toll. Uri Deputy Commissioner Aiyaz Kakroo says 113,000 people live in 95 villages around Uri and 75 of those have suffered ?90% damage,? by which he means houses damaged beyond being inhabitable, or totally destroyed. ?We have fifteen to twenty thousand damaged homes,? he says. ?We need 50,000 blankets and 15,000 tents. So far we have two to three thousand blankets and a few hundred tents...