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...girls' behavior all the way--nor should it. Says Erika Karres, a retired teacher who once worked in the North Carolina school system: "You have to teach kids that it's good to have anger because it helps you get things out." The trick, of course, is learning to master the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness, confidence and swagger...
...Modern Art (sfmoma.org), from May 13 to Aug. 13, gives Western audiences a chance to discover how the Japanese see themselves. The atom bomb, Americanization, urbanization and the postwar rebuilding of Japan all figure prominently in Skin of the Nation, which collects some of the 76-year-old master's most famous images from the 1950s to the present. Among them is the haunting Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki-a gelatin silver print that darkly conveys the force of the atomic bomb that had devastated the city in 1945. The stark Prostitute, Nagoya...
...Friday night party scene this weekend, they will find very few options on campus. The College is not allowing parties in Houses tonight, in accordance with a campus noise prevention policy the night before the administration of the MCAT test, the pre-medical school exam. While Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said he did not know who enacted the ban, he said he believed it made sense. “The exam is grueling...They need a good night’s sleep before going into the field of battle,” he said. However, some students are finding...
...list of major artists for about five or six years that we’ve been wanting to ask to Harvard.”Everett started the jazz program at Harvard in 1971 to bring renowned jazz musicians to campus.Everett said the program seeks “masters, artists that have contributed a great deal to the jazz canon but also have a very personal sound and approach. They’ve been innovators.”Ideally, they are also teachers. At a rehearsal with the Jazz Band and Kuumba Singers on Wednesday night, Hendricks combined anecdotes from years...
...Enron executive suite. Lay and Skilling may have transformed a stodgy natural-gas carrier into a global trader in everything from energy to weather futures and broadband, but the two men remained surprisingly old-school when it came to technology. Take Skilling, a Harvard School of Business grad and master of this brave new digital world. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission went after Enron for the California energy crisis, it built a case using in-house e-mails that nailed Enron's youthful dealmakers for manipulating the market. Yet no incriminating e-mails from Skilling have been found...