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...daughter, Jenn, 12, and a son, Jeffrey, 11, both avid soccer players. Pictures of them adorn her office, sharing space with the results of recent medical surveys...
garb throughout the week, but this is only a matter of comfort--if you have never worn DHAs, you are missing out on something special--and convenience. I may adorn myself with this jockish attire, but when I speak in section, when I picture myself walking through the Yard, when I enter the Barker Center, I envision a student and I hope that is also what others...
That's an understatement at Mott Hall, where shining chess trophies adorn the hallways. Here, kids turn out to cheer at chess tournaments just as they would for sports teams at other schools. "The kids are like chess vampires," says Jerald Times, Mott's chess director. "They can't get enough." All 410 students at Mott play chess. It is a required course, just like math and English, for kids in Grades 4 through 6. By seventh grade, chess is offered after school only. At a time when the lure of gang life is strong, chess gives kids a chance...
Colorful red, white and blue inaugural banners still adorn the walls of City Hall, but for now Cambridge remains without a mayor, as the City Council again failed to elect a top leader at Monday night's council meeting...
...exquisite little head of Philip IV's daughter, the Infanta Maria Teresa, is even more summary. Velazquez paints shapes that look so obsolete that they're almost abstract--the massive cornrowing of the brown wig, for instance, and the mysterious, icily translucent lace butterflies that adorn it. He paints paint, or, more exactly, cosmetics: that pale mask flushed with matte pink, a plain little girl--she was a teenager then--propelled onto the international market by Papa's political schemes. Such portraits were made to be sent abroad to the relevant ambassadors, in the hope of arranging a suitable marriage...