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...Absent-minded folk everywhere rejoiced when they realized that cordless-phone stands had a "pager" button to help them locate their misplaced handsets. Now this convenience can be brought to any frequently mislaid item with The Sharper Image's Now You Can Find It! Wireless RF Electronic Locator. Beeper discs can attach via key ring or double-sided adhesive pad to keys, glasses, and even your Harvard ID. A different button on the portable base will make each disc beep loudly. With a 30-foot range, you'll never have to rifle through the papers on your desk again. Available...
...everyone in Ann Arbor is enthusiastic about Fornero's approach to narrowing the achievement gap. Some white residents have complained that the efforts to bring black students up to par will divert resources from other students. Accordingly, the phrases "African American" and "minority" are absent from the titles and mission statements of the various initiatives, and the programs are open to all underachieving students. Many teachers are simply ill at ease with the frank public conversations on race that the new strategies sometimes require. To assuage those anxieties, Fornero has hired Deborah Harmon, an African-American education professor from nearby...
...first thing one notices about the opposition candidate is his face, full of scars and blisters that were absent from his once youthful, handsome visage just six months ago. And though Viktor Yushchenko, 50, raises bees in his spare time, he and his supporters from western Ukraine claim that there is nothing natural about his disfigurement, which they say is the result of a poisoning attempt by his political rivals in September. The soft-spoken Yushchenko is very much an International Monetary Fund kind of man, committed to liberalizing the state-run economy. The fact that his wife is American...
...next pre-trial hearing in the case of a Harvard undergraduate charged with possession of drugs with intent to distribute was set yesterday in Cambridge District Court, with the defendant noticeably absent...
Schaffer, who withdrew from class in March 2003, was absent from yesterday’s proceedings. When asked why his client was not in court yesterday, Schaffer’s attorney, Robert K. Leroy, replied with a grin, “I’m not comfortable talking about that...