Word: trenton
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...fact, Amutah has his softer side: he is a TeaLuxe devotee and adores his mother’s farina, a traditional Nigerian dish. He arrived at Harvard hoping to become an entertainment lawyer, but shifted gears to pursue advocacy and social change, increasingly conscious of his Trenton, N.J. roots. He switched concentrations from English to African studies, and developed an affinity for Marx. Amutah criticizes Harvard students who realize that their career choices will have an adverse effect on society, but “don’t care enough to change [them...
...been," he says, "but I can’t say that I’m happy with the University." Amutah says he is not even sure if he would choose to go to Harvard if he could make the decision again as a high school senior from inner-city Trenton, New Jersey. "Being here seems like so many contradictions," he says "it takes a toll...
...Plum is based in Trenton...
...mind, Jersey has energy. Jersey has a sense of humor about itself. Jersey has an in-your-face attitude. And Trenton is large enough that you could imagine that it would have a decent amount of crime. It has this small-town kind of environment, second-generation Americans, working-class people. This is my background. This is what I feel comfortable with...
...breaths and puffy bodies of those who habitually drink too much. Some get divorces; some live with others unmarried. Their lives away from the school are disorderly and wanton and self-indulgent. They are paid to instill virtue and democratic values by the state government down in Trenton, and that Satanic government farther down, in Washington, but the values they believe in are Godless: biology and chemistry and physics. On the facts and formulas of these their false voices firmly rest, ringing out into the classroom. They say that all comes out of merciless blind atoms, which cause the cold...