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...senior thesis, Beck spent time in Tokyo riding with a biker gang of high school drop-outs to investigate Japanese juvenile delinquency. He said that the significance of the Hoopes Prize was uncertain at the time, since the new award was fairly unknown...
...Undergraduate Council’s (UC) founding in 1982, one of the crowning achievements of previous student governments at Harvard had been securing free toilet paper for residents of the River Houses. As the College’s first officially recognized and funded student government, the UC exercised powers unknown to its predecessors...
...With his charismatic leadership, and unapologetic (sometimes angry) rhetoric, Wright struck a chord with many of this city's growing black middle class. One of them, a young, relatively unknown community organizer named Barack Obama, joined Trinity in the mid-1980s, finding both a spiritual home and a useful entree into Chicago's black political elite. Obama soon came to view Wright as something of a father figure. Wright ended up consecrating Obama's wedding to Michelle Robinson, baptizing the couple's children, and even provided the title to his best-selling memoir, The Audacity of Hope...
Taryn Simon Her photographs offer a look at some of America's remaining unknown corners...
...down like a ribbon. At the other end a car sits in an intersection, crushed by a boulder. A traffic police station tilts at a nauseating angle. Most of the town has been cleared of bodies, but a few exposed corpses remain jutting out of collapsed buildings. An unknown number are buried below...