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Into that breach stepped Achieva. In 1997 the company, initially called Sierra, opened in Palo Alto in a remodeled limestone house, whose major decorations today are framed acceptance letters received by Achieva clients from such colleges as Brown, Harvard and Amherst...
...need this, who already have 2 1/2 strikes against them, who'll get left behind," says David Breneman, dean of the education school at the University of Virginia. Watson counters that Achieva regularly does pro bono work in poor schools and has a free summer academy in East Palo Alto, a disadvantaged neighborhood. The company also has counseling contracts with seven high schools in low-income San Jose, where Achieva works with hundreds of kids who can't afford Watson's services. "We're doing well and doing good," Watson says. The counseling done free or under contract with...
...course, it doesn't really matter where he works. Whether he's at Pixar, at Apple or at home in Palo Alto, Jobs just parks in front of a computer linked via high-speed line to a server that offers the current state of affairs at both companies: documents, presentations and e-mail, e-mail, e-mail. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't do stuff for Pixar," Jobs says, "even if I'm not physically there. And there's not a day that I'm at Pixar that I don't do stuff...
...even got to see my personal heroine Jamila Wideman sitting at a Palo Alto pizza bar. So what if I missed a couple of midterms? Jamila Wideman...
Harvard began its trip to California with a Friday night matchup against Stanford on the Cardinal home turf of Palo Alto. Despite potential jet lag as well as the hostile crowd, the Crimson put forth one of its best efforts of the season, hanging tough with the Cardinal for the entire match...