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...clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says most schools are failing boys by forcing them into an "educational straitjacket." Elementary schools lack male teachers, "sending a message to boys that learning is primarily for girls." Young boys, he claims, learn at different tempos, and perhaps the cutoff birth month for starting school should be later for boys than for girls. Once there, boys should be allowed to move around more, taking short recesses when they are restless. They should be able to use computers rather than be forced to write by hand before their small-motor skills...
Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter sends letters to students who make the grade cutoff, encouraging them to apply. To apply, students must submit recommendations from two faculty members for review, and they are notified of the committee's decision about a month later...
...roll gains over. But it gives you a $500,000 exclusion if you are married ($250,000 if single) every time you sell a primary house--so long as you have lived in it for two of the past five years. Again, '97 is a transition year with important cutoff dates. The old rule applies to sales before May 7, the new rule after Aug. 5. If you sold, or went to contract or even bought a new house without having sold the old one in between those dates, you get your choice...
...education savings account. Under one plan, the working poor who qualify for an earned-income credit could not also get the per-child credit--at least not right away. But they could carry it forward for three years and claim it, retroactively, if their incomes rose above the cutoff point for the earned-income credit. Got that...
Lilith, at the show in George, proved to be a safe, sacred spot. Here were teenage girls in cutoff jeans and bikini tops, middle-aged moms in baggy T shirts and running shoes. Here a woman breast-fed her baby during Jewel's set; here fans sat dead-quiet, listening to the lyrics. Here a woman wore a T shirt marked "dyke" with a parodic Nike swoosh, while two other women walked comfortably hand in hand. Here a man in a concession-stand line talked excitedly about Sarah McLachlan's songwriting skills. Said Shellie Knawa, 30, a Seattle computer-manual...