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Every November, Wisconsin ceases to be a red state or a blue state and instead becomes a blaze orange one. That is the color donned by hunters, 650,000 of whom bought licenses to participate in the state's rifle-deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year...
...course work covering everything from leadership to finances, followed by a yearlong residency at a school and on-site coaching. NLNS, which is a nonprofit, has placed principals in such cities as New York, Chicago and Memphis, Tenn. Two-thirds of NLNS graduates are women or people of color. Graduate Omar Gobourne, an African American who flew helicopters for the Army in the first Gulf War, went on to help launch the E.L. Haynes charter school in Washington. "My military experience," says Gobourne, "taught me to think on my feet." The New York City-based NLNS is still evolving...
...kids 3 to 7, called VSmile--for learning, of course. "Moms aren't happy when their kids want to play video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow, and has been putting classic games like Battleship, Boggle and Yahtzee into handheld electronic format...
Preliminary suggestions from faculty members for Harvard College Courses included courses on world history, the nature of color, the European novel from Cervantes to Kafka and a course that would study seven works...
Following on the heels of “Giselle” was the more contemporary “Izzie’s Own Ocean,” choreographed by Ebonie D. Hazle ’06. This bohemian piece brings literal and stylistic color to the show. The music, a lone wailing violin, makes the performance feel exotic and elegant. The slow and smooth, almost hesitant motions of the dancers suggest a sense of searching, and as the piece ends the dancers slide into the background like the title’s ocean, receding into the distance...