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...emphasis of recruiting efforts has been to sharpen the message that higher education is affordable for students from low-income backgrounds, said Fitzsimmons. Melanie B. Mueller '01, the director of HFAI, told the Gazette that the preliminary increase in African-American, Latino, and Asian-American applicants is partially due to the work of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program...
...reality; I don't have the perspective; I don't have the bigger picture. But if enough of my kids and enough of my youth will go to volunteer, be it in Darfur or be it Rwanda, or be it in the squatter camps of South Africa, they will sharpen their sensitivities. And they will come back and say, listen, if we can do so much good out there, let's do something over here. And I see my own kids, when they come back from India and from Latin America, how changed they are as people...
...while to train your mind for that, to anticipate it as you’re writing.” Nevertheless, their college years have proven to be an invaluable source for developing and honing the writers’ comedic writing.The Lampoon provided a forum in which Downey could sharpen his skills. “It’s a nice environment because it’s a bunch of smart-ass types who rub the edges off of most people,” he says. Likewise, all the hours that Kenward spent hanging out in the Castle during his time...
...would have thought Russia's march through Georgia and its quasi-annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia would have instilled a healthy sense of ursophobia in Berlin and points west. You might also think that Russian pressure tactics against the newer members of the E.U. and NATO would sharpen doubts about Moscow's pledges to be a "good citizen...
...Crimson spent last week watching old NHL clips to sharpen its offense...