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...parents sought reimbursement from the school district for Mount Bachelor's tuition, claiming that Forest Grove never properly evaluated their son for special education and therefore could not provide him the free and appropriate public education that was legally required. The district countered that, under IDEA, as revised by Congress in 1997, parents may seek reimbursement only after the child has already tried special education within the public system...
Synanon began as a drug-rehabilitation program before morphing into a controversial cult and is credited with putting forth the idea that confrontation and boot-camp-style breakdown tactics could cure teen misbehavior and addiction. Synanon's confrontational techniques influenced est and LifeSpring, which began selling weekend seminars designed to prompt emotional breakthroughs in participants...
...Students are very much a part of Harvard. I have no idea why they should not be admitted to the Faculty Club,” said University Professor Stanley Hoffman who has been dining in the Faculty Club for 46 years. “It will be refreshing.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...essay describing the meaning and sentimentality of their collections in addition to annotated bibliographies detailing the items. Hope Mayo, Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in Houghton Library, served as the judge of the Philip Hofer Prize and said she looks for a “unifying idea that illustrated the collector’s conception of the material,” and that both prize-winning collections “met the scope and the originality of the idea.” Both winning collections will be displayed in Lamont Library before Reunion and Commencement Week, Mayo...
...along." President Ma evidently agrees. "We want to make friends with them," Ma said last year when he was promoting the concept of Chinese tourism to his constituents. Today in Taipei, many seem to think Ma was right. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to invite the Chinese to eat, shop, and be merry...