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This year, though, with members of The Naked Chips scattered throughout the country’s college towns, it’s been a challenge for the band to maintain its momentum...
...This is exactly what's happening in a pilot program that started this month at three vocational high schools in disadvantaged suburbs of Paris. Accounts will be set up for two classes in each school, each containing around $3,000 apiece. If the students maintain good attendance records and reach performance targets agreed upon with their teachers, reward payments will be added to their class account. But here's the catch: the students can't go and spend the money on a new iPod or an Xbox at the end of the year. Each account, which could reach a maximum...
...City planners maintain that the BRA’s structure is effective and that it has had a successful track record. Susan Elsbree, a BRA spokeswoman, said in an interview with The Crimsom that planners have been working “tirelessly” in Allston and that “it simply wasn’t true” that community input was being ignored. “To suggest that we’ve not been doing enough to plan and hold Harvard’s feet to the fire is ridiculous,” she said...
...Facebook fan club numbers 29 and is entirely former Life Sci students. Unlike Mankiw, he doesn’t maintain as strong of an online presence, although during the course of the interview, he finally declared, “You can say that finally, after resisting for years, I was convinced to create a [Facebook] profile...
...ambassador to Chiang's Nanjing government. At the time, the real-life Mao vilified Stuart as an agent of American aggression toward the communists. In the film, Stuart, as well as the U.S. State Department, is lukewarm toward Chiang and the KMT - reflecting, perhaps, Beijing's desire to maintain the momentum of its improving diplomatic ties with Washington. (Last November, the Chinese acceded to a four-decade-old request by Stuart's family to have his ashes buried in a cemetery in Hangzhou, near Shanghai...