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...total of $260 in cash and food coupons from the Singapore Indian Development Association, one of several government-funded charities, plus $55 to defray school expenses for his 16-year-old son. This support may not sound like much, but because Krishnan has fully repaid the mortgage for his three-room public housing estate apartment, thanks in part to a government scheme that allowed him to use his retirement savings to pay down the loan, the stipends take care of most of the household expenses while Krishnan looks for another...
...sympathize with and talk about with one’s co-workers. Through these relationships, students could learn about culture in a more individual way and make sense of the numerous small facets of life they observe. You may observe that most of the town lives in standard-looking, three-room houses, but until you try to help someone decide where they’ll put their mother-in-law when she comes to visit, this fact doesn’t come to life. Moreover, it is not a far stretch to invite a nice co-worker home to meet...
...landed himself in hot water after becoming embroiled in Kenyan tribal politics. He has contracted and fought off a virulent case of malaria. He grew up in a three-room house with neither electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14. But most Harvard students know him only as the man who put an end to the free booze.A man who spent much of his career eschewing the limelight, former Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam found himself at the helm of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College...
...reporter was able to enter and go up to the second floor wing where Cho lived. It's a nondescript place: students live two to a room in three-room suites, each of the suites attached to a smallish common area. The dorm is co-ed by room. The second floor was being patrolled by a security officer. "You have to leave here now," he said...
...Harvard Foundation is housed in a low-ceilinged three-room office in Thayer Basement. It’s the kind of space that’s bright and welcoming, and yet has not been particularly well publicized on campus. In a Crimson survey conducted for this article, about 61 percent of students said they had heard of the Harvard Foundation, but only 30 percent knew what...