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Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, a member of the FAS Physical Resources Committee, said that while she had heard nothing of plans to put undergraduates in Allston, she assumed it would allow Harvard to “recreate the Cambridge ambience of mixed housing, culture, commercial [areas] and classrooms...
...York City, Peer Play Groups, which opened in 1993 and is run by former school psychologist Andrew Cohen and social worker Sandra Greenbaum, has seen its enrollment rise from 30 to 80 kids in the past two years. Ginny Strock, co-owner of FriendSmarts, which runs social-skills groups in and around Palo Alto, Calif., says her practice has grown fivefold since it began in 1996. "Parents and teachers are realizing that these skills are as important as knowing how to read and that with coaching and lots of practice, kids can improve significantly," says Strock...
...groups are typically small, with a maximum of five kids. A session costs around $80 a child; on average, kids go weekly for one year, although some, like Alexander, choose to stay longer. Peer Play Groups works with youngsters 5 to 13, and Cohen and Greenbaum carefully screen families, which are referred by teachers, doctors or friends, to weed out children with severe behavioral disorders. The goal is to balance each group with kids who are outgoing and those who are withdrawn. To help them address the difficulties they face--being teased or bullied at school, feeling excluded from playground...
...session of four kindergartners, for example, one boy laughed as another had to draw undesirable cards in a game of Uno. When the laughing boy found himself in the same unhappy position a few minutes later, Cohen pointed out how nice it was that the earlier object of his ridicule was not laughing at him now. "We give them solutions, different strategies for playing well together," says Greenbaum. "We empower them with ways to solve the problem that take both people into account, like understanding that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and neither is that big a deal...
...That's what power is today: it's exposure," Cohen says. "Celebrities are about being branded. If you want to compete in the new world of entertainment for publicity, you need to market yourself. By using multimedia--music and entertainment as well as fashion--today's celebrities have three powerhouses to get them to the height of popularity. The more you put yourself out there and the more cultures you can cross over, the bigger the payout potential. And for those celebrities who have yet to figure it out, believe me, their agents are working...