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...small pool creates stars within the crossword galaxy. One of these is Ellen Ripstein, a researcher for a TV game show (could it be Jeopardy?) who, after a dozen or more years in the top five at Stamford, was profiled in a front-page Wall Street Journal story in 2001, and won the tournament that year, to chants of "El-len! El-len!" The lifelong New Yorker describes herself as "a little nerd girl," but she knows her worth. "I had a boyfriend once" - once, she says - "who would sort of try to put me down. And I would...
...Throughout the weekend tournament, Shortz bustles around, announcing the rules and the winners of each of the seven puzzles. On Saturday night there's a talent show - the search for an "American Crossword Idol" - at which Ellen demonstrates her baton-twirling expertise. Another conventioneer, Vic Fleming, sings and strums a cruciverbalist's country lament: "But if you don't come across / I'm gonna be down...
...Floortime approach. My colleagues and I are firm believers that for most children and families, it is the method that best enhances the bonding between child and parent, child and therapist, and eventually child and peers. The therapy is intense and long, but the developmental outcome is rewarding. Ellen Reisel Rishon LeZion, Israel Your story gave a really helpful overview of the body of research on autism. I was pleasantly surprised to see Time recognize that studying how mercury in vaccines might affect the body is a legitimate route of inquiry. Your evenhanded comparison of the ABA and Floortime methods...
...wasn’t just FAS that feuded with the president. The dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, resigned in March 2005. She writes in an e-mail that “Harvard is awash with rumors...One of the hundred you can hear at any time is that I resigned because of tensions with Larry Summers.” But according to GSE professor Howard E. Gardner ’65, who served on the search committee that hired Lagemann, the president and the dean “clashed repeatedly, even before Lagemann accepted...
...Ellen T. Yiadom ’06, also a former Foundation intern, says that this arrangement allows the organization to have direct communication with College deans—who attend Foundation staff meetings—and direct access to funding...