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...sure how it even happened. A few trips to Expedia, a couple are-we-actually-doing-this moments, and then I was on a plane to Amsterdam with a bad head cold and the threat of a British Airways strike boding poorly for my return to the US. Unlike my blockmates, I did absolutely no research before leaving. What was the national language? Or food? Or rapist population? I had no idea. Was I staying in a crack den? The price tag certainly seemed to indicate it. I told my mom we’d be going to cultural sites...
...Course head Rebekah Maggor, a voice and speech consultant, said that she was inspired to start the class when she recognized the “enormous” demand for more public speaking instruction within the Harvard community...
...We’ve got to change the way we conduct business on Beacon Hill,” he said. “I’m just tired of the game playing. It rears its ugly head so much more clearly when things are as bad as they...
...Both teams consider the other their most mortal rival,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “It’s an old long-standing rivalry—it’s like Harvard and Yale with football...
...Dallas, paying kids to read books - something almost all of them can do - made a big difference. In fact, the experiment had as big or bigger an effect on learning as many other reforms that have been tested, like lowering class size or enrolling kids in Head Start early-education programs (both of which cost thousands of dollars more per student). And the experiment also boosted kids' grades. "If you pay a kid to read books, their grades go up higher than if you actually pay a kid for grades, like we did in Chicago," Fryer says. "Isn't that...