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...professionals and community leaders also team up with the young students to work on projects ranging from producing a music CD to hosting a golf tournament.“This is a really pivotal time in kids’ lives, where they are really craving a connection to the adult world,” Rimer says. “It is an opportunity where they can really light the light bulb of learning and develop a real sense of mastery through these hands-on apprenticeships.” A WORLD OF ‘WOWs’Citizen Schools aims...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Citizen Schools Livens Up Learning | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...five-woman clique and floated a paper boat across the Charles River. In retrospect, I can’t help but feel immature. The system of residential housing and dining is a fundamental part of the Harvard experience, but it comes at the expense of being forced to assume adult responsibilities...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Coming Up Short | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...fear of retribution laughed and grew evasive. “It sometimes does do that, but I don’t know if that would be right to bring up.” In theory, the UA who unfreezes your computer won’t spread your penchant for adult material around campus. But even if he wouldn’t tell FM exactly what depravity he’s encountered on student PCs, FM’s source admits that “a lot of personal data gets shown...because it is data backup sometimes there is personal...

Author: By Merav D. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: User-Assisted Madness | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

Please, can we declare an end to the year of the literary gotcha? Because I?m fresh out of outrage. Yes, I cared that James Frey exaggerated or fabricated parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces. I sort of cared that Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed bits of her young adult novel (the title of which is too long to bother typing) from other young adult novels. I even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ian McEwan Has Nothing to Atone For | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...sure what to make of that picture. It was meant to be provocative but there's a cost. For all of the people spurred into having an adult conversation about the tradeoffs and Vargas' decision to scale back her professional career to be a mom there will be plenty who will not. For a public woman about to make Vargas' choice, the prospect of a magazine turning her choice into the subject ofprovocative editorial art won't make her decision easier. It'll be great when women can make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with John Dickerson | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

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