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...says. “It keeps me from getting sick of either thing. There’s just a wealth of interesting material.” Campbell has been playing jazz since middle school, according to Sayuri Miyamoto of Newton, Mass., his classical piano teacher from first to twelfth grade. “He showed a lot of interest in the structure and theory of the music,” she says. “Sometimes he would write in jazz chords to help him remember classical pieces better.” His view on the role of music...
...school qualifies for the program because more than 50 percent of its students qualify for free and reduced lunch, Healy said at the meeting. The city will submit a grant application detailing its plan to install photovoltaic solar panels at the school, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, later this week. “With any luck...some kids could learn how they work and end up working with photovoltaic cells in the future,” said Jason Taylor, a Peabody School parent who spoke during the public comment segment of the meeting. City Councilor Sam Seidel...
...fired on all cylinders.The Crimson grapplers opened their season at the Binghamton Brute Open on Saturday, bringing a full roster to Johnson, N.Y. in order to test the team’s progress. With three finalists and two overall winners, it is safe to say Harvard earned a passing grade.“Overall, if this is the way we’re going to start [the season], I’m excited,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “A bunch of guys had bright spots, and our conditioning was some of the best...
...integrated, then why aren't there any white kids here?" That's what seven-year-old Jahseem Maxwell wanted to know, when his second-grade teacher, Lindsay Korn read to the class from Toni Morrison's Remember (which includes a brief history of integration). Despite the historic U.S. election occurring on the same day he asked his question, the world outside his classroom at the Future Leaders Institute just off Harlem's Malcolm X Boulevard didn't seem much different from the 1950s reality described by Morrison...
...Chicago's Alinea Restaurant. "There's a huge misconception that the food here will be science-y. It's food." He concedes that there "are tons of steps" in his Alinea (Ten Speed Press; $50), but, he says, "a well-written recipe is as simple as a fourth-grade story." And since not all fourth-graders have an antigriddle (a cooktop that freezes rather than heats), Achatz notes that a cookie sheet atop dry ice will suffice...