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Fienning was very involved in the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). In 2006, he was the co-director of Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment, a PBHA-sponsored summer English as a Second Language program aimed at high-school-age Boston immigrants...
...immigration grouch Lou Dobbs suggested this week that an exception might be in order for the brothers - has raised hopes that the DREAM Act could get a vote in both chambers as early as this fall. "This is really allowing the movement to crystallize," says Jose Luis Marantes, youth organizer for the Florida Immigrant Coalition who is working alongside Juan's friends in Washington this week. Diaz-Balart spokesperson Ana Carbonell concurred: "It's allowed us to show Congress the human face of those whom we're trying to assist...
...Khateeb will tell you that Iraq doesn't need any more reconstruction projects or development programs now. International donor funds are better spent, she says, on emergency aid like food, water and medicine. "We are facing a huge humanitarian catastrophe," says al-Khateeb, who works on gender and youth issues for the Iraq al-Amal Association, an Iraqi nongovernmental organization. "No one is acknowledging how big the humanitarian catastrophe...
...This summer however, the live music scene has been seriously looking up. Not only have the bills been improved, but even the locations are noticeably more desirable than the grimy tailgates of my youth. Beside the standby parks and fairgrounds, this city’s bridges, rooftops, even its pools have been transformed to host a slew of performers from the up-and-coming (Rodrigo y Gabriella at the Central Park SummerStage) to the timeless standard (Sonic Youth in Brooklyn’s McCarran Pool). And, most recently, an obscure local punk band performed in my own garage...
...what if I’m literally the youngest person living in my entire house this summer? It was Aristotle who said, “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.” Either he was talking about a different kind of intoxication than I’m visualizing, or he was never a 20-year-old proctor in the 25 and older house. Malcom A. Glenn ’09, a Crimson associate sports chair and summer managing editor, is a history concentrator in Leverett House...