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...shut 21 schools--15% of the city's total--and fired more than 100 workers from the district's famously bloated 900-person central bureaucracy. She has dismissed 270 teachers. And last spring she removed 36 principals, including the head of the elementary school her two daughters attend in an affluent northwest-D.C. neighborhood...
...University of Michigan. He became a specialist in rehabilitation and pain medicine, and her mother owned a women's clothing store. Education was highly valued in the family, as was independence. After Rhee finished sixth grade, her parents sent her to South Korea to live with an aunt and attend a Korean school, a harrowing experience for a child in a strange land with limited skills in its language. When she returned a year later, her parents sent her to a private school because they found the public schools lacking...
...classmates set up their tailgate around 10:30 a.m.. “It’s good to see a good turnout today.” His classmate, Robert Rittemburg ’55, said he and a group of friends attend all of Harvard’s football games, including the away ones, but that there is something special about the Harvard-Yale contest. “I enjoy the rivalry—it’s usually closely matched,” he said, adding that the abundance of alumni adds to the experience. Recent alumni also...
...heard that her roommate was among this year’s Rhodes Scholars. “Naturally, she’s just one of the smartest people I know,” she said. “She works really hard.” Snider said she hopes to attend medical school after Oxford. Ultimately, she said will specialize in psychiatry and neurological research. Haddad-Fonda, who is concentrating in history and near-eastern languages and civilizations and is a resident of Pforzheimer House, said he is planning a doctorate in oriental studies at Oxford. “It?...
...Whether or not the Dalai Lama decides to take that unusual step, he seems to have begun the succession process in other, more subtle ways. Senior lamas of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism now regularly attend the Dalai Lama's teachings. The Dalai Lama has arranged for the Karmapa, an important lama who escaped from a Tibetan monastery eight years ago, to be tutored in several languages, including Korean, an indication of a wider global role...