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...said. “Every single program you have in the system can’t be focused on the MCAS. You have to focus on the whole child, and this is where I would categorize the CityStep program.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Joyce Y. Zhang can be reached at jyzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...said, but her sorority sister seemed a bit closer to the catwalk. Hardee has competed in beauty pageants in the past, and she even aspired to be Miss Junior Alabama. She’s never actually modelled, but she’s closer than most. Except, of course, for Laura Duncan. A student at the Graduate School of Design, Duncan brought along a leather binder full of photos from past modeling jobs, for which she has earned up to $3,500. Like the freshman and sophomore modeling neophytes, she is tall and thin. But unlike the younger girls, Duncan...
...school. “It is incredible that we are doing this budget...and throwing more money into the pot everywhere when other districts are cutting back,” she said. The School Committee will vote on a finalized budget on April 4. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...year-old South African mother with HIV, Babalwa Mbono, held First Lady Laura Bush and an East Room audience OF 200 spellbound on Monday as she told how she had turned an abusive marriage into a happy one by confronting her husband about her diagnosis despite the shame that she felt. "He was shocked," she said. "I was so angry." She said he went straight to a clinic and discovered that he, too, had the virus. "He was ashamed of himself," she said. "He apologized. After that, we had a good life, me and him." Their baby was born...
...Laura Bush, whom Mbono described as the group's "grandmother," used the occasion to announce a new public-private pediatric AIDS treatment initiative that will channel more contributions from the United States, international organizations and pharmaceutical companies to help parents obtain and use simpler and safer medicines for children. According to the administration, the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided $238.7 million to South Africa in the past two years, and Bush?s 2006 budget includes an additional $221.5 million. "The need is great, but the goodwill of the world is greater," the First Lady said...