Word: urban
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During her time at Harvard, Kiley was involved in the First-Year Urban Program and two Phillips Brooks House Association public services programs. Kiley also served on the Ethnic Studies Action Committee...
...Robert C. Merton, the Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, as the first John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Cornel West '74, famed author and philosopher, will hold the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship. And William Julius Wilson, a theorist on urban problem who has served as an unofficial adviser to President Clinton, was named Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
Wilson said his research on urban problemslinks disciplines "from developmental psychologyto economics...
...Robert Kennedy was the last Americanpolitician who could campaign in the urban centersand the suburbs and say the same thing," Bendersays. "He was the last politician who coulddeliver the same message everywhere and have itheard. It is the standard people use as the bar toaspire...
...still remember when I could swim in the ocean. That was before I came to Harvard. I had a lot of free time and much vivid contact with the environment in which I was raised. I could experience first-hand all the pleasures and troubles or urban life--the accessibility, the rush, the violence. The vastness of the sea and the threat of the city were both an exciting challenge and a fearful perturbation. Life was uncertain...