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...Dudley Café, on the other hand, was home to a very different scene. Daily, it fed dinner to members of the Harvard College Program for Researching in Science and Engineering (better known as PRISE...
...After seven weeks of less-than-excellent ‘Berg fare, and circulating rumors about Dudley House’s stellar dining services, my curiosity got the better of me. I decided to sneak in, and taste it for myself...
Suddenly, post-Schuler, it's no longer funny when people crack a joke about "better parenting through alcohol." The image of a giddily drunk parent may have had some appeal when it started, once the war against Betty Crocker had been won and when irreverent mommy bloggers were confessing their sins as far as the mouse could reach. There was something liberating about the eyebrow-cocked, white-wine-swilling posture of the saucy parenting memoir. It felt fresh, a rebuke to the perfectionism displayed every day by the overly tidy mothers on morning television. (See TIME's parenting covers...
...Every kid of a family that is entitled to food stamps and public assistance gets $200, which hopefully should help them enter the school year better prepared and on a more equal level with other kids. This is for all the kids in New York State eligible for those programs - 850,000 kids - and it takes advantage of the federal stimulus package, which offers support to states with programs that qualify, like this one. I put up 20% of the cost and the state put up the rest. (Read "George Soros - Power Giver...
...point is that this is an exceptional time, when we are hit by a very severe recession and just when the needs are the greatest, the amount of money available from traditional sources has been decimated by the financial crisis. Therefore those who are in a better position ought to do more than they normally do. So I continue all the programs of the Open Society Institute. This is additional, and it's something I would not do unless we were in such an exceptional situation. Hopefully it won't be necessary to do it again. (Read "The Case...