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Scientific Learning scored its biggest coup in May with a pilot project to provide Fast ForWord to the Chicago public school system. Right now, private clinicians are the chief providers of Fast ForWord training, which can cost more than...
Gratified administrators at the Elim Christian School outside Chicago would endorse that view. Fast ForWord has worked for most of the 40 or so Elim students who have completed the program, says Linda Kleyn, director of network services at the school. That persuaded the Chicago system to give Fast ForWord...
...contrary. Frankel was a washout as a money manager, twice failing his brokers exam. And as a trader with LaSalle Street Securities, a Chicago firm, he proved too timid for the job--a surgeon afraid of sharp instruments. "I used to call him in the morning and say, 'Marty, make the trade!'" recalls Ted Bitter, a former client of Frankel's. "I would call him back in the afternoon, and he wouldn't have done it." His own fund, the Frankel Fund, attracted a total of three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed...
That is no surprise to Aaron McGruder, the 25-year-old African American who created The Boondocks for his student newspaper at the University of Maryland. The strip, he says, "requires people to go outside their comfort zone." Born in Chicago, McGruder grew up in Columbia, Md., where he dealt with "the intimidation of being one of two or three black faces in a sea of faces that don't look like you." He still works out of his bedroom in his parents' split-level ranch house, his collection of Star Wars toys strewn about. Besides "an addiction...
...appropriate ("worthy") responses to the Holocaust. My quarrel is with the notion that all these tears accomplish much. This, and not their worthiness, is the reason I ask in the book "why the eliciting of these responses from Americans is seen as so urgently important a task." PETER NOVICK Chicago...