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...woman can earn," Thariani says. Her epiphany came, she says, when she heard the husband of one of the women say about his newly schooled daughter, "kind of with mock annoyance, 'That daughter of mine, she's always got her nose in a book.' That was a tectonic shift in these people's lives. These are no longer families of laborers. They're now educated families." The Tharianis--and the Pakistani girls--are the winners...
...perfect storm has receded. We have better news in Iraq, oil prices are down, and Katrina has kind of fallen off the radar screen in terms of public concern." But they know that Bush is running short of time to salvage his remaining three years. The focus will soon shift to the 2006 midterm elections and then to the race to replace him in 2008. And a midterm election that doesn't go the Republicans' way would draw a bright line of demarcation between a presidency and a lame-duck Administration...
...cover,” Bezanson said. “I think everyone is interested in how you make large amounts of money.” Despite the success of facebook.com, which the founder said receives millions more daily page views than Google, Zuckerberg said he is not prepared to shift his focus from growing the site’s infrastructure to maximizing profit. “We’re focusing not on building something and how to make money out of it but, instead, always looking to maximize the long-term value,” Zuckerberg said about...
...from it. Building a student pub will not create a sense of social interaction which did not exist before; more popular bands will not turn concerts into spectacular successes. No number of petitions passed around will make students genuinely care about University policy towards custodians. Only through a fundamental shift in attitude on the part of the collective student body can any of these changes occur.I transferred to Harvard from another university, and I have often been asked what is different about Harvard. Aside from the awe-inspiring resources of the University, there are many similarities. Students here are exceedingly...
...important to learn and internalize the concepts of filmmaking as opposed to video, even though it will be soon outdated,” Patino says, “because it runs on the basic principles that video is predicated upon. Learning filmmaking is like learning to drive stick shift.” There are two different sections: one is taught on Mondays and Wednesdays by Moss; the other is taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays by Hooker Professor of the Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti. All the classes are held in the basement of Sever and are three to four hours long...