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This September, Astha Thapa ’07 traded in the spectacular summits of the Himalayan mountains and sloping green hills that have surrounded her since her childhood for the flat lawns and wrought iron fences of Harvard Yard...
...some of the letters to old friends or to strangers inquiring about his childhood, I discovered things I didn't know about him. "Fire engines were horse-drawn then," he wrote about his early years, "and the sight of them made me decide I wanted to be a fireman." I also didn't know how, on a Saturday night in Tampico, Ill., a 9-year-old Dutch Reagan, along with a friend, found a shotgun belonging to the boy's father and blew a hole in the family's ceiling. We pore over our parents' childhoods when we are past...
Loker teemed with contestants and rubberneckers yesterday afternoon, as Harvard students fought for the coveted buzzer spot that many had fantasized about since childhood...
NCLB doesn’t direct its harshest threats at mediocre, laissez faire suburban schools filled with bored teachers using 1960s textbooks and methods. Their students come with parental support. They come with early childhood knowledge of English. And despite the possible failings of their school, they handle test day on their own. Middle-class schools like this, though often stagnant, are spared the punitive reach of NCLB...
...there in 1956 that he was discovered by Vogue and then whisked off to London and larger things. But it's at this very point, when he takes up the work that made him famous, that his book tapers off. What did he bring to it from his childhood in Isherwood's Berlin or his flight from Hitler's? He doesn...