Word: howe
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...declared her most "fascinating and invigorating" ever. At a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Thatcher and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev delayed the second act for 20 minutes while they conferred over smoked sturgeon about arms control. The next day Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was forced to improvise at a British embassy luncheon when the Prime Minister arrived two hours late. Reason: her morning meeting with Gorbachev had gone into overtime...
Harvard also won the Howe Cup Tournament held at Yale in February, snagging the seven-woman national championship title for the third time since the honor was initiated...
Harvard defeated the Bulldogs, 6-1, on Yale's home court in the Howe Cup Tournament earlier this month to capture the national seven-woman championships...
...best counseling, unsurprisingly, tends to be offered in public and private schools attended by the middle class, but even that is often not enough. "Anytime you have a situation in which very desirable options are available to students, you have parents trying to beat the game," says Harold Howe II, chairman of the College Board Commission on Precollege Guidance and Counseling. The result is a growing industry in private advisers. Says Barbara Wolfson, who sent her son to a private counselor in Atlanta: "There's a limit to what the school counselors can do." For fees...
Reports last fall from the College Board commission and the National College Counseling Project recommended that educators reshape the role of the guidance counselor and start advising students earlier. Harold Howe and others argue that the counseling system needs to be more thoroughly a part of school and not the ancillary service it often is. "Good college counseling begins to work in the seventh grade," insists Herbert Dalton Jr., an admissions officer at Vermont's Middlebury College and an NCCP director. But what about the money for enhanced efforts? Counseling jobs have been easy targets in times of tight budgets...