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...carlessly coloring away my days in kindergarten, my chances of marrying were about 90 percent. In the sixth grade, when I spent Tuesday afternoons getting kicked by my unwilling partners in dancing school, they dropped to 76 percent. When I graduated from high school, they plummeted to 66 percent. It's a little disconcerting to find out that now, as I enter the third decade of my life, a total stranger has assessed my marriageability at a miserable 60 percent, just a shade better that a fenced 50-50. Now I know what the Princess of Wales felt like when...
...poet, who has been a voice of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union, was at Harvard to introduce a screening of his recent film, "The Kindergarten...
Almost immediately, sympathetic Americans moved to create a wide variety of memorial funds. One group of Washington attorneys and bankers set up a trust to provide for the children of the crew members; among those who pledged donations were kindergarten classes in Florida and Maine, two California songwriters and a bank in Hawaii. (The McAuliffe family is already the beneficiary of a $1 million life insurance policy, donated before the accident by a Washington, insurance brokerage company.) The National Education Association began to collect for a program that will seek to honor McAuliffe by financing "pioneering" projects by teachers...
...Reading Game first plunged into multi-outlet tutoring in 1970, beginning with eleven centers in California and expanding to 70 in six states. The company has served a principal diet of reading for kindergarten through twelfth grade, both remedial for slow learners and enrichment for fast-track youngsters. Its fee: $20-$25 an hour...
Back when Joe Kahn was writing giddy letters of praise to his kindergarten teacher, Bok was refusing to cover angles (e.g. on divestiture or the numbers of women and minority students at Harvard) with students, face-to-face. Joe Kahn sees polish and refinement. I see a tenure of increasingly conservative backlash, including 1. a policy of exclusion. Of Skocpol from sociology (and perhaps political purging at the Law School), of women and minorities (of whom one report to the president suggested less of--they would be "happier" at "lesser institutions"), of medical workers from unions, of faculuty members from...