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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though students will not be presenting their case before the Supreme Court, the clinics will allow participants to get a feel for the dilemmas that lawyers confront and hone their legal researching and writing skills, Dealy said...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Help Prep For Supreme Court | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...critical. Even his son Luigi, working with the same ingredients and oven, can't yet make a pie quite up to his father's standard. "The boys are still learning," says Ernesto of his international kitchen cadre, including Japanese apprentices eager to learn his secrets. Ernesto started to hone his skills when he was 12. Of course he needs help turning out 2,000 pizzas a day, but I shamelessly wait by the furnace to scoop up the magic one made and baked by the master himself. It takes only 30 seconds to bake to blistered perfection in the woodburning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life of Pie | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

Manning's $98 million contract, which included a $34.5 million signing bonus, is another easy target. So is his birth into football royalty. While it's true that Peyton Manning has worked hard to hone his God-given talent, it doesn't hurt to have had a father like Archie Manning, the Ole Miss legend and New Orleans Saints standout quarterback. All the Manning boys are genetic freaks: younger brother Eli is a starting quarterback, though not an effective one for now, with the New York Giants, and older brother Cooper was slashing toward stardom before a spinal disorder ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Get Riled About Peyton Manning | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...favor can divert and modify steps in the decision-making tree. "The capacity to use brain responses and relate them to behavior has accelerated at a breathtaking pace over the past four years and yielded an incredible amount of information," he says. How marketers use that data to hone their messages remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: Marketing To Your Mind | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...consumers” of statistics, analyzing real data on local high schools to make informed decisions about where to apply, Dugas says.All 8GA students participate in a special apprenticeship with lawyers from Boston law firms, the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, and the Boston Bar Association to hone their persuasive writing skills. “It makes the work they’re doing in school relevant to their futures—that’s why apprenticeship learning for this age group is so powerful,” Rimer says. AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Citizen Schools Livens Up Learning | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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