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...Last month, the College announced plans for a $1 billion-plus House renovation project that will take place over the course of 15 years, beginning as early as 2011. Shapiro said she would be working closely with the five new resident deans next year, helping them to adjust to their jobs in a time when much administrative attention will be diverted to this large-scale, long-term project. Her job will also entail working on crisis and emergency management planning, as well as helping with projects pertaining to calendar change plans. In the face of curricular changes, Shapiro said...
...play in a totally different climate, on a course you’ve never seen before, on different grass than you’ve played,” said senior captain Jessica Hazlett, who shot 242 (83-81-78). “It takes a lot of time to adjust.”The weather was consistently around 100 degrees in Austin and very humid. On the final day, thunderstorms interrupted play, and four of the five Crimson players were forced to wait 80 minutes to finish their round. By the time they were able to finish their season...
...have now come blinking into the world. While Austria recoils in horror at the crime that produced the children, and grapples with how it remained undiscovered for so long, the Fritzls have a more basic challenge ahead of them: survival. Can children constrained to such a stunted sphere adjust to the world's cacophony? And what can modern science and medicine do to help...
...than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development. Thrown into a world controlled by adults, both are often forced to accept adult responsibilities when they are far too immature to adjust. The pressures placed upon them are unnatural at their age. The resulting misbehavior—largely related to drug and alcohol abuse—of these kids is not remotely surprising.By “discovering” children, Iris Burton knowingly halted their natural development and sent them down...
...know, the taco man. How do you adjust to not having one of those around?” Eliana C. Murillo ’10 asks with a slight accent, discussing the differences between Harvard and home. She sits beneath the austere façade of Winthrop House as students, clad in pastel Bermuda shorts, mingle and sip pink lemonade, enjoying one of the first days of spring...