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CoCo's origins are charmingly mundane. In Hong Kong, CoCo lived with her mother and sisters Nancy and Carol until she was eight. (Her father died before CoCo was delivered.) Then Mama Lee decided her daughters needed English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin...
This may be one reason why those who, like me, migrated to San Francisco for its anything-goes culture have been in such an uproar. "Everybody's just spitting mad," says Carol Lloyd, who writes a column called "Surreal Estate" for sfgate.com the San Francisco Chronicle's website. "Something essential about San Francisco is changing, and even people who aren't negatively affected are upset." Interestingly, she notes, many of the dotcoms reviled by artists and neighborhood activists started out like a lot of other quirky, creative San Francisco projects. "They just happened to coincide with the rise of Silicon...
Along with the majority of department heads, some of Princeton's most famous faculty members have taught in the freshman seminar program, including Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, recent Harvard presidential candidate Amy Guttman '71 and the controversial ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer...
...After finishing in the cellar of the league last season, the Quakers (13-30-1, 2-10) start this year with a young team. There are no seniors on the squad and only five juniors, leaving Coach Carol Kashow with a large amount of inexperience on her hands...
Last week, film star Jane Fonda donated an impressive $12.5 million to the Graduate School of Education to endow a professorship in the name of Graham Professor of Gender Studies Carol Gilligan. The professorship is meant to be filled by an academic who will study the effect of gender on childrens' development and learning--Gilligan's area of expertise. We have sorely missed a professor devoted to this area, as Gilligan has spent much of the past few years teaching at New York University as a visiting professor. This endowed professorship, however, will ensure that Harvard will always boast...