Word: bradford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senior skipper Marion Guillaume and sophomore crew Kerry Anne Bradford helped the Crimson to a third-place finish in A-division, while the B-division saw a solid finish from a young tandem of freshmen. Skipper James Fish and crew Jessica Walsh placed seventh for Harvard, just a single point more than Wellesley in sixth...
...season’s third Central Series. The Crimson took seventh-place in A-division thanks to the work of senior skipper Robby McIntosh and freshman crew Michelle Konstandt. In B-division, senior skipper Marion Guillaume led Harvard in a third-place showing, and though sophomore Kerry Ann Bradford served as crew in the regatta’s first 12 races, Powers took over duties for Sunday’s final two races.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...similar program in Bradford, England, is all about the kids, too. In a three-day riot in 2001, hundreds of young Asian men destroyed dozens of white-owned businesses, straining relations between the city's 15% Pakistani population and its white residents. Working for Education Bradford, the private company that runs Bradford's schools, Angie Kotler noticed that the inner-city students, who are over 90% nonwhite, had little contact with the students attending the majority-white schools on the periphery. So she set up the Schools Linking Project, twinning schools and having their students meet up regularly to play...
...happens on the local level. Cohesion is all about everyday interactions, in the supermarket or on the playground." Successful, long-lasting integration takes place in community clubs and children's play groups, bake sales and block parties. Programs don't have to be big or expensive; Kotler says Education Bradford runs its twinning scheme "on a shoestring." "This isn't woolly liberal multiculturalism," she says. "Yes, it's about respecting difference, but it's also about discovering what it means to live together and feeling O.K. with a sense of multiple identity." Because the only way for Europe...
...DIED. Bradford Washburn, 96, climber, cartographer and aerial photographer who in 1951 founded the all encompassing Museum of Science in Boston; in Lexington, Mass. Labeled "a roving genius of mind and mountains" by outdoor photographer Ansel Adams, Washburn mapped the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, using prisms and lasers to measure depth; and in 2000 he helped revise the height of Mount Everest, up to 29,035 ft., a 7-ft. correction...