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Hewitt says she views the program as an environment in which high-school students can find enjoyement in academics...
During her years at the helm of the SSP—a program enabling about 1,000 high-school students to enroll in classes and extracurricular activities at the Harvard Summer School—Hewitt came to be known best for her distinctive administrative and personal manner, colleagues...
Each summer, as other University administrators found some relief from the academic year’s fast pace, Hewitt faced the arrival of hundreds of high-school students. But her busiest season, she says, was by far her favorite...
...really hope that a course will fire students up in a way that high-school courses have not,” she says...
...Such a mix-and-match attitude, Takizawa believes, is particularly suited to Japan. In places like Paris, high fashion is a luxury earned through maturity. But in Tokyo, it's a birthright. Gaggles of young women live at home, piling up enormous disposable incomes that make them the one bright spot in an otherwise moribund economy. With even high-school girls able to afford a Louis Vuitton handbag, the cachet of haute couture is rapidly wearing off. "People in Japan no longer feel they have to prove they're rich by wearing expensive labels," says Takizawa, who himself rarely wears...