Word: claudia
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...leading scorer and a final cut from the Canadian Olympic squad. Returning from the 1997-98 squad are Harvard's Most Valuable Player and leading scorer, sophomore Angie Francisco, Ivy League Rookie of the Year Kiirsten Suurkask, their linemate and senior sparkplug Jen Gerometta, co-captain Claudia Asano on defense and junior goalie standout Crystal Springer. This season also marks the first in which the team comprised entirely of Stone's recruits...
...school class was long on helpfulness but short on other aspects of etiquette. Just as it is good to know the posture with which to guide a blind person across the street, it is good to know how to ask. MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN '00 NYANI-IISHA F. MARTIN '97 CLAUDIA MASTROIANNI '91-'94 NANCY A. SIMS '97 BARBARA A. STROM...
Research suggests that when schools or parents put undue emphasis on grades, learning suffers. A recent study of 412 fifth-graders by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck at Columbia University found that kids who are praised for their performance and inherent intelligence are less willing to take risks and have trouble weathering any sort of failure. Kids who receive praise for their hard work and persistence tend to blame failure not on a lack of ability but on not trying hard enough. "This encourages them to sustain their motivation, performance and self-esteem," says Dweck...
Departing from most education reporting, which tends to focus on vouchers, budgets and teachers' salaries, we went right to the source: the students themselves. "We went about this from the ground up," says Claudia Wallis, the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS and a mother of three who wrote our lead story on exceptional students. "We were interested in figuring out what made these kids tick. To do that, we spoke with the students, their parents, friends, teachers and coaches." Finding the kids featured in Wallis' article required a nationwide search, coordinated by the project's chief reporter, Megan Rutherford...
Models and food: Who thought that would work? CLAUDIA SCHIFFER has become the second superthin catwalker--Christy Turlington broke away last year--to pull out of Fashion Cafe. In a statement, Schiffer said her continued involvement was made "simply impossible" by "old problems" at the chain. Fashion Cafe founder Tommaso Buti has had problems paying bills, but a Cafe flack insists this wasn't why Schiffer left. It's another ripped seam for the eatery, which has recently seen closings of its Barcelona and New Orleans outlets. And, of course, there's a lawsuit. Investor Luigi Palma is suing Buti...