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...owners of badly damaged homes so they can quickly get back on their feet, without waiting months for a grand?and cumbersome?reconstruction plan of the sort devised for Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. In some areas life is already returning to normal. Malioboro, Yogyakarta's main tourist drag, is open for business again. "Visitors are slowly returning, but they are mostly local," says Suhartono, a batik vendor. "We hope it won't be like Bali [after the bombings], with foreigners afraid to come...
...before, chance seemed to play as large a role as any skill I possessed at every step. After all, the last time I had lost anything meaningful prior to my arrival in the Yard I was in seventh grade, I was running for elementary school vice president, and the main plank of my opponent’s platform was candy for lunch. Through a shrewd bit of skill, I promised students that they could teach for a day, and they elected me president the following year. What bumps in the road I encountered were few, far between, and easily weathered...
...team. She also competed in the qualifying rounds of the Harvard-hosted U.S. Open in the fall. Squash chops Lorentzen had to spare. And her play in the No. 1 spot for the Crimson, coach Satinder Bajwa said, had a trickle-down effect. “I think the main thing with someone like Lily on the team,” Bajwa said at the beginning of the season, “is that the rest of the team is really energized and very confident in their top player, which takes the pressure off them.” Lorentzen capped...
...issue of staffing presented one of the main obstacles as the College prepared to extend Lamont’s hours. At the time, federal wage and hour laws prevented women from working late nights, and only three of Lamont’s 22 staff members were men. While the Freshman Union Committee offered to staff the library with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m., Buck chose to simply use a reduced staff during the extended hours, saying at the time, “it isn’t fair to depend on anyone whom you don’t compensate...
...rising number of applicants. “It will not do to say that Harvard College will concentrate on quality of education as a problem separate from large numbers,” the report said. “Such a decision would simply withdraw Harvard from the main educational problem of our time: how to present a high quality of education to unheard-of numbers of able students.”The vision for an expanded campus that Pusey outlined in 1956 included a health services facility, more classrooms, a behavioral sciences building, and three new undergraduate Houses...