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...Lost Colony: The Snodgrass Conspiracy by Grady Klein, the most uncategorizable of the First Second books, reads like something you would expect to find on the home-made desk of the local eccentric after he died. This first in a multi-volume series (aren't they all?), introduces a sui generis world of oddballs who live on a mysterious island, presumably somewhere off the Atlantic coast of the U.S., sometime prior to the Civil War. The premise of the first book has Bertha Snodgrass, the grade-school-age daughter of the island's governor, deciding to buy a slave...
Congressional strategists in both parties say the boycotts and work stoppages across the country Monday are likely to hurt chances of persuading conservative lawmakers to go along with an immigration bill this year. Key aides still hold out hope for sending one to President Bush's desk before midterm elections, but were shaking their heads as they watched television coverage of small businesses that had to shut down and suburban work sites that were empty because of a national demonstration that proponents call a "Day Without Immigrants...
...BAGGING IT Shaun Jackson Design's Higher Ground laptop bags are light, compact and cleverly configured to obviate the need for a desk. Several of the small company's cool cases are marketed toward students but serve business travelers equally well...
...Physical Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti. The group either forwards a case to Summers or asks the department to bolster it before it is considered at the next level.When a case arrives on Summers’ desk, an ad hoc committee convenes to consider the tenure recommendation.From 8:30 a.m. to about noon, the ad hoc committee meets in the Perkins Room, first listening to testimony from department chairs and senior faculty members, and then continuing in a private session during which Summers asks committee members their opinions...
...today’s Harvard women graduate and confront the world of careers, marriages, and children, they too will face the dilemma my mother faced 20-some years ago. Many will choose the life of conference calls and long hours at a desk. Of those who have children in addition to jobs, many will feel constantly worried that they are not giving their children enough time and interest. Those who forgo mothering will sometimes feel the gap of not having children. They will reassure themselves, of course, that their work is more fulfilling than mothering could ever...