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Last June, shortly after the French Communist Deputy André Gérin launched the idea for a parliamentary commission on the burka, a Parisian journalism student went in search of the controversial article of clothing. The quest ended in failure: From the cosmopolitan neighborhood of Barbès to that of Belleville, shopkeepers repeatedly insisted that, while they sold plenty of headscarves and the occasional niqab, no clients had ever sought to purchase a burka...

Author: By Judith Surkis | Title: The Tip of the Iceberg | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...since 1989, and there have been clearly progressive social effects: The number of schools has quadrupled since 1986; Porto Alegre’s health and education budget increased from 13 percent in 1985 to almost 40 percent in 1996; sewer and water connections in the city of Porto Alegre went up from 75 percent of total households in 1988 to 98 percent in 1997. The number of participants in the budget process grew from less than 1,000 per year in 1990 to more than 16000 in 1998 and is presently around...

Author: By Thomas Ponniah | Title: The Democratic Imagination | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...club for clowns? A club for surfers? In Boston?  Freshman year saw me throwing myself into school activities, afraid that I wouldn’t make any friends if I didn’t, since I didn’t go to parties. But I went for the things I did in high school: the radio station, journalism, even Ultimate Frisbee (although in high school, it was a more informal extracurricular pursuit). After simultaneously joining the intramural and the women’s club Ultimate teams, I tore my ACL before classes even started while playing intramural Ultimate...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe | Title: Four Years Later | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Those who self-reported as legacies—defined in this survey as having a grandparent, parents, or sibling who went to Harvard—were less likely to receive financial...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Financial Aid | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

...time this post was written, the page had 330 fans. Many of the fans are residents of Delaware—where Wheeler actually went to high school—or students who attended Harvard at the same time as Wheeler...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Adam Wheeler Facebook Group | 5/22/2010 | See Source »

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