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...year. "There is absolutely no way you'll make a profit unless you have a quality program," says A.J. Clegg, CEO of Nobel, which earned $1.6 million on revenues of $110 million last year. New wrinkles at Nobel's Philadelphia school include lessons in Mandarin Chinese for every student from kindergarten to eighth grade. Why Mandarin? "It's the cash language for the 21st century," explains principal Brien Gardiner, the school's co-founder...
...Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking in a post-victory speech in Mandarin as a seeming display of respect to China, said he wouldn't hold a national referendum on declaring Taiwanese sovereignty. Meanwhile, Beijing refrained from military action, and issued a statement saying it would take a "wait and see approach" to Chen's policies...
...Carl Belz served as director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University from 1974 through 1998. Now the mandarin of the greater Boston art scene, Belz spoke with Crimson Arts about a quarter century committed to the living artists of the area...
Saturday night I meet a senior from the class of '99-'00 with twelve languages from Spanish to Swedish, Italian to Urdu, Punjabi to Persian at the tip of his tongue. (The other half-dozen are Hindi, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and, yes, English.) "I was born in India, but we left when I was six months old," he says. "Then we were in Iran for three years, hence the Persian. We speak Hindi at home, but my parents answer in English." Home? "New Jersey...
Soon, the other tongues babble forward. "My parents are ethnically Punjabis...Spanish was high school...After Spanish came French...Urdu spoken is not so different from Hindi...Mandarin I took at Harvard and then I was in Beijing for the summer...German I did at Harvard and I spent all last year in Germany...Swedish was at Harvard too...Portuguese I'm taking now." Next year? "I'm going to be a consultant." Ah, a Harvard student after...