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When the Crimson traveled from the City that Never Sleeps to just plain sleepy Ithaca it grew even more dominant...
Also on April 8, a resident of Jamaica Plain working in a store at 254 Mass. Ave. reported that two co-workers threatened to "eliminate...
...accept them. In TIME last December, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, himself a Holocaust survivor, said those "who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money." Yet the plain, if unsatisfactory, truth is that money is the most tangible instrument of compensation that society has at its disposal. Verbal apologies have been proffered in recent years by institutions, and by such nations as France and Poland, but sincere as they may be, they leave no evidence of penalty. Dollars...
...Harvard students involved in Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN). This Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) program offers free adult education classes in English as a second language (ESL), computers, math and reading/writing to residents of the Fresh Pond Housing Development in Cambridge and the Bromley Heath neighborhood in Jamaica Plain...
...Millay and E.B. White, 10-year-old Rachel Louise Carson, born in 1907 in the Allegheny Valley town of Springdale, Pa., was first published in the St. Nicholas literary magazine for children. A reader and loner and devotee of birds, and indeed all nature, the slim, shy girl of plain face and dark curly hair continued writing throughout adolescence, chose an English major at Pennsylvania College for Women and continued to submit poetry to periodicals. Not until junior year, when a biology course reawakened the "sense of wonder" with which she had always encountered the natural world, did she switch...