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...School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Dorris was a "relatively cheerful, even-keeled, generous, outgoing person," whose anguish stemmed directly from recent events--the end of his marriage and the sex-abuse allegations. "Michael saw taking his own life as a rational way out," said Jeanne Friedman, a fund raiser in Berkeley who was close to Dorris for 26 years. "He felt that the charges would destroy his family, would destroy the body of work he had built up over his lifetime. He kept saying, 'All across the country, my books are in schools with young people...
Fortunately, Saturday night's concert started good and got better. The concert opened with the Sunday Jazz Band, who performed a sophisticated arrangement by longtime Harvard Jazz Band collaborator Jeff Friedman of the Thelonious Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
...care--the kind in which adults talk to them a lot in a responsive way--have a slight advantage over kids in less attentive settings when it comes to language and learning abilities. Those include such skills as recognizing shapes or understanding relations among objects--what study coordinator Sarah Friedman of the NICHD called "the bedrock of school readiness." Then again, children who spend long hours in day care, especially low-quality care, were slightly less engaged in their interactions with moms, who were themselves less sensitive to the child's cues. That was noted in particular among mothers...
...Fenno was trying to walk a line between political correctness and speaking directly," Friedman, says. "In each instance you need to take into account both the context and the motives of those concerned...
...Friedman notes "there's definitely an increased awareness to the issue [of hate speech] at Harvard and other Ivy league schools...a sensitivity to the codes of conduct that define political correctness...