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...Cole, who as Fresh Pond Apartments resident service coordinator said he actively encourages Fresh Pond residents to involve themselves more in their children??s education, lacked, like Adugna and the other parents, the tools he needed for the task. To Cole, who had never heard of some of the schools in the district, those options remained light years away...
...requires the heroine to choose which of her eight first cousins to marry.) Though I was informed by my concerned parents at age seven that such practices are, at least in our society, inappropriate, my attachment to Alcott remains. There comes a time when we are supposed to discard children??s books and read “real” literature. Yet something about the books adults read when they’re young continues to attract and influence them. Books like the Harry Potter series and Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials?...
...largely focused on “first-world diseases,” such as cancer. The conference, held on Africa Malaria Day at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), explored new ways of combatting the disease that claims more than one million lives—mostly young African children??every year. “There are over 200 million new cases of malaria each year,” said Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases Dyann F. Wirth, who directs the Harvard Malaria Initiative. “It’s a major disease which deserves our attention...
What it did go for is pretty simple: Melanie (Julia A. Rudolf ’10) is a terrible newspaper advice columnist who wishes she were writing children??s books instead. Nick (Derek M. Flanzraich ’10), who works for the newspaper’s owner Fitzwilliam (Nelson T. Greaves ’10), is in love with Melanie...
There were also two jokes about bad children??s books that seem to have been copied from internet lists about poorly thought-out children??s literature (there were about 16,900 Google hits for “Strangers Have the Best Candy,” one of the titles the script mentioned). I don’t know why this very creative cast and crew felt the need to use two stale jokes from a Web site, but it certainly detracted from the rest of the show...