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...influences on personality. Can these influences be reversed? Depends in part on the age of the individual. Also, in some cases the new environment may turn out to be not very different from the old one. For example, a child who is well-liked by her peers in first grade is likely to be popular in second grade as well, even with an entirely new set of classmates. So the peers may be reacting to characteristics the child already has, rather than influencing these characteristics...
...finishing them.That all changed Friday night, when the second line combined for six points to send Harvard past St. Lawrence and into first place in the ECAC for good.“It is great to see results,” Buesser said. “We have a grade-A chance thing that we record, and I feel like our line has a lot of those, but it’s great to finally get some in the net.”Wilson and Buesser connected for another score on Saturday afternoon.The most impressive example of the line?...
Some of the biggest spending cuts in the new budget - nearly $10 billion - will hit education and social services. Spending on kindergarten through 12th grade will be reduced by $8.4 billion over the next two years. This means teacher layoffs, fewer school days and more crowded classrooms. Higher education funding will also be cut by $888 million at state schools, where students will be expected to shoulder 10% higher fees. And, according to the new budget, $1.5 billion will be saved by eliminating senior citizens' annual cost of living increases and other health services (again, depending on where the federal...
It’s Saturday, and I am writing this in Starbucks. I had to arrive early to fight my way to a counter space between that homeless-looking guy in the bomber jacket and the two TFs who like to grade papers in total, ominous silence over their cappuccinos. To those of you who spend your Saturdays in the airy, mostly sweet-smelling spaces of Lamont Café or the Widener Stacks, never needing to elbow anyone more threatening than a group of Weld freshmen in order to secure yourself a spot: Don’t smirk and fold...
...cupcake I ate most recently—from Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square on the day of my last final.Chocolate cupcakes baked in ice cream cones: the cupcakes my blockmates baked for my 21st birthday.Cupcake04: my first ever AOL screen name, based on the brilliance of my fifth-grade mind.I like to think of myself as a cupcake connoisseur. Those childhood delicacies that perk you up with one look at their frosting mound and colorful details. I don’t remember the first time I ate a cupcake as a child (but I can remember how I always...