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...teen rebellion after 1945 were always about more than loud music and fashion. That story has often been told, not least by Savage in his 1991 history of punk, England's Dreaming. What's yet to be accounted for is the curious disappearance in recent years of the generation gap between teens and their elders. In an age when the burning issue at middle-aged dinner parties is whether or not the Arctic Monkeys' second album is up to snuff (definitely, I'd say), it sometimes feels like everyone is a teenager...
...spending a lot, investing a lot in getting women into schools and universities,” the queen said. “But when it comes to the workforce, we have one of the lowest rates of female participation.” She said the key to bridging the gap between education and employment is “not just about changing policies, it’s about changing mindsets.” “Changing mindsets takes a little bit longer,” she said. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that?...
...sacrifice fly to left to bring home Murphy.Dartmouth wouldn’t go away, rallying in the top of the sixth against Harvard ace Shelly Madick. With runners on first and second and one out, Big Green star designated hitter Kelly Fry tripled into the right-center gap to tie the score. Madick kept Fry on third by striking out first baseman Alyssa Parker, who had homered against her the previous day, and catcher Leigha Clarkson to end the inning.Backed with a three-run lead, Madick set Dartmouth down easily in the seventh, allowing only a two-out, infield single...
...York Youth Symphony as well as a rock band. When the group got serious, he decided to defer coming to Harvard for a year in order to record an album with the band and tour around the Northeast. Although he was already musically involved in high school, this gap year was largely responsible for focusing Collins’s attention and efforts on the arts. “My year off was a big shift for me,” says Collins. “I probably would have been an English major. In high school I was very academic...
...Harvard students are looking to assist those undergraduates that find themselves too busy—or too shy—to bridge the gap between attraction and connection. Daniel “Zac” Tanjeloff ’08 and David M. Galkowski ’08, and their business plan for Check My Radar, a new take on social networking Web sites, walked away with the grand prize in a competition held this semester by the newly-formed Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF).HCEF will link the winners of their 2007 Startup Plan Competition and Summer Fellowship Program...