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...terms. And yet, they are still thrown into a heterogeneous solution of women from various schools. "We do not want you" is the implicit message. The social appeal enjoyed by Harvard men does not extend to Harvard's women. A Harvard woman is not, shall we say, a guy magnet...
...became clear, however, that the magnet was Diana--accepting flowers, flirting with soldiers, falling asleep in public while pregnant or simply smiling. The Prince is an attractive enough chap, but notably unphotogenic. The camera worshiped his wife, and he became jealous...
...know, what did he expect to do now?" Perhaps she will be the one to institute many of the programs developed under Reeves' administration. For example, the Technology 2000 initiative, which seeks to place a computer in every classroom, must be vigorously pursued. And current talk about charter or magnet schools should also be followed up with serious consideration. Just as the school system evolved from a dual system of technical and scholastic education into the unified Rindge & Latin secondary school, so Cambridge's educational structure must again evolve to prepare youth for the New Economic Order based on information...
...Philadelphia, Henri's worldly, rebellious, effusive nature made him a magnet to younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis...
These schools are also magnet schools which draw their areas' best students, creating what Fitzsimmons calls a "self-fulfilling prophecy...