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They described studying rockets, learning to play chess and reading and writing stories after their classes are over...
...French society." How nervous is France? Right now Raffarin's approval rating is 38%, the lowest point of his 16-month tenure, down from a high of 63% last December. So you might expect the Prime Minister - tasked with running domestic policy while President Jacques Chirac plays diplomatic chess with George W. Bush - to be feeling a little anxious himself. It's not just his popularity that's taking a beating. The French government recently announced that the economy shrank by 0.3% in the second quarter, and in August unemployment figures started creeping up again. The government is still reeling...
Hodgson makes his directing debut this fall with the first pre-season show at the Loeb Experimental Theater: How I Learned to Drive, which opens this weekend. Last year, he acted in Chess, Richard III and Pippin. When he’s not acting or directing, he divides his time between the Literature concentration and in serving as the Communications Coordinator for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club...
...unwraps a computer keyboard from the T-shirt that swaddles it and apologizes for the mess of clothing draped over his bedframe. Some snack food—two packages of Ritz crackers, a row of oranges—adorns the mantle of the common room. Several toiletries stand like chess pieces on the linoleum floor tiles, and the open door to a coat closet nearby reveals a jumble of cardboard boxes...
...wired differently, dyslexics are often skilled problem solvers, coming at solutions from novel or surprising angles and making conceptual leaps that leave tunnel-visioned, step-by-step sequential thinkers in the dust. They talk about being able to see things in 3-D Technicolor or as a multidimensional chess game. It may also be that their early struggle with reading better prepares them for dealing with adversity in a volatile, fast-changing world...