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...person), celebrating in four cities with friends and family. Are they happy? Yes. Are they together? Not exactly. Minikel, 37, remains in California to practice obstetrics and gynecology, while Balle, 44, an electronics technician, still lives in his homeland 5,500 miles away. She gets to work herculean hours at a job she loves; he gets to help raise his two teenage kids...
...their upcoming semester during their time off. So it is shameful to see that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived on campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core...
...baby boomers with a social-entrepreneurship mind-set and added time in their lives to give back to their communities, such tragic events as Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina, and greater numbers of wealthy individuals with the funds to launch their own nonprofits. But starting a nonprofit is a Herculean effort, requiring patience and determination...
...Because despite the Herculean efforts of Mr. Rollins and Co., the general public still doesn’t care much for all-ages venues hosting weird bands. If you’re still curious about what today’s underground looks like, head on over to Allston or Chinatown, not to Las Vegas...
...worked for years in one of the more prestigious residential special-education facilities in eastern Massachusetts, and I can empathize with what must be nothing less than a herculean effort by the parents in your story to get the best education for their autistic son. They are real modern-day heroes. It pained me to read the complaints of those who said public funding of the autistic boy's education causes other children to lose out. Those words could only be uttered in ignorance. Most students don't have special needs and are free to amass what knowledge they...