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...students. One is not necessarily more important than the other. The fact that these people do not have $16,000 to pay for one year of Harvard's food, shelter, education, and security does no make them any less deserving of the University's attention. They cannot merely be thrown into another neighborhood or institution for us to forget about. We cannot forget about the problems of the street while we are snug in our cozy Leverett rooms. The University does have a responsibility to the community, not only due to its expansion and subsequent diminution of low-income housing...
Most fatal accidents occur within 25 miles of the home, and a passenger is 25 more times likely to be killed if he is thrown from a car, according to the Governor's Safety Bureau...
They both agreed something called Gunk was good for grease. And Julie Moore had an insider's tip: white flour. "After the Nevr-Dull, coat a dry, clean rag with white flour, and it's half the buffing job. We've about been thrown out of the hangar because I get flour all over the place...
...Anyway, I met Davey's father, Davey Senior, at 18. I met him in an after- school center, where I played Ping-Pong every day, which I loved. Davey Senior was thrown out of his house for something, so he came to live with my mother and me. And then my grandmother moved in too. My grandmother was a rip; she used to beat up all the kids with a broom. Davey and me lived in the same house, but we didn't do nothin'--would you believe it? I was a virgin till I got married...
...shots and dah dah dah. I tried to fight, but I wasn't ready for court. I am not a smart person by any means. They closed my welfare case because I had no children, which meant that I had no money, no electric money, food money. I got thrown out of my apartment. I would have been a goner if I hadn't been taken in by Vinnie's brother and wife. So I took care of their six kids while I was waiting for the court to give me back my own. I took those kids to school...