Word: umbrellas
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...alumni. “I’m a real admirer of the concept behind the magazine,” he says. “You had a stake in a sophisticated, largely affluent audience, and you had a very interesting group of people to write about underneath the umbrella of Harvard alumni.” True, with featured alumni like Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Al Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates, “You could cover politics, finance, the arts, architecture, really anything.”Still, there were skeptics...
...would be disastrous—firing every single state employee would still leave Massachusetts $7.2 billion in the red. Innovative programs like Massachusetts’ universal health care system would fall by the wayside, and even basic services would struggle for survival. In Cambridge, Steven Swanger, who directs the umbrella organization of Work Force, has vowed to “fight tooth and nail to keep it going.” But he can only do so much alone. The Cambridge community is already feeling the pinch of a slowing economy. Adding on the weight of Ballot Initiative One would...
...voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside the library. "This one's too important not to make sure my vote gets counted right. So I'm taking my day off today to do this now, not on Election Day, when...
...accoutrements of game day. Furthermore, giving HoCos a stake in helping to run this enormous undertaking provides students with an opportunity to prove that they can handle themselves in a potentially dangerous situation. In short, it’s good to have students helping other students under the umbrella of the House system. Although HoCos may be able to help students make good decisions, there are some flaws in this new policy that may endanger students at worst, and ruin the game at best. That the tailgate must start at 10 a.m. incentivizes underage students to binge drink...
...Harvard production.” The hard work of years past has endured, and HRDC has expanded and thrived on Harvard’s campus since its conception.The organization has undergone major changes in the past 100 years, moving from a small group of about 80 men to an umbrella organization that supports all theater companies at the university. While the Harvard Dramatic Club’s original purpose was to produce student-written works, Megan E. O’Keefe ’11, Community and Alumni Relations Coordinator for HRDC, says that today, she sees HRDC...