Word: gaps
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...Despite the theoretical tone of his address, Moses said that the key to social change lies in individual hands-on initiatives, the sort he said formed the basis of the civil rights movement. “It’s about the struggle to close the gap between what America preaches and what it practices,” he said. —Staff writer Cora K. Currier can be reached at ccurrier@fas.harvard.edu...
...think that taking a gap year definitely made me more excited about taking classes and wanting to do well in school because I had a job that was really crappy,” said Caitlin V. Crump...
...realized that if I didn’t do well at Harvard, that’s what I’d be doing for a living,” Crump said of her gap year working in a Mobile gas station. She had been accepted on the condition that she take a year off prior to matriculation...
Hannah R. Trachtman ’10 opted for a voluntary gap year that she said would not have been possible without loans from her parents...
...there are signs of a generation gap opening up among Texas Latinos. Consider the Lucio family of Brownsville. Eddie Lucio Jr., an advertising executive and state senator, is backing Clinton, but his son and namesake, a newly minted state representative, has endorsed Obama. In some Hispanic communities, half the electorate is under 30, so Obama sees an opportunity. Both he and his star surrogate Senator Edward Kennedy are campaigning in South Texas...