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...that Shanno pleaded with the teacher that she would learn her alphabet properly after lunch, but was ignored. (The parents of several other children at the same school say their children describe the incident in similar terms.) Shanno's sisters Saima and Sehnaz then ran to get their mother. "We thought our sister was dead," Saima said. When their mother arrived, she found Shanno lying on the ground, Khan says, and by the time Shanno was taken home she had slipped into a coma. He breaks down while relating Shanno's last words to her mother: "I never want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...says. His play “Black-eyed Susanna,” written in his senior year of high school, won the Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting in 2006 and was produced in Berlin the next year. “The play is about a mother and daughter on their wedding day, but it soon turns into a metaphysical poem.” Growing up near Cambridge, Pecci often saw theater performances at the American Repertory Theatre. The ART, he says, was “one of the reasons—if not ‘the’ reason?...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daniel R. Pecci ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...concerns, covering topics from ocean preservation and whale biology to the Caribbean sugar cane industry.In 2002, Haney was listening to National Public Radio on the drive home from work when he heard a piece that drove him to tears. The story was about a 24-year-old single black mother in Texas who had been wrongfully accused of dealing narcotics after a raid on the housing projects where she lived. She was given two options: a plea bargain, which would release her as a convicted felon in exchange for pleading guilty, or 15-25 years in prison. In the face...

Author: By Jessica M. Righthand, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Haney Crafts New ‘American’ Drama | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...With a mother who teaches costume design and a former set designer for a father, Sarah A. Sherman ‘09 was probably always fated to be involved with the theater in some way. As one of this year’s recipients of the Jonathan Levy Award, which recognizes “the most promising actor or actress at the University,” it’s clear that her genetic predisposition for the stage paid off. Growing up in New York City, Sherman would spend long hours after school with her mother in the costume shop...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sarah A. Sherman ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...world. A month before she took ill, she had just found temporary work, a government pollster job that sent her from door to door in the outskirts of Oaxaca, the city where she lived with her husband, a welder, and their three daughters, ages 21, 17 and 10. Her mother-in-law, whose house she lived in, says Adela worked very hard "from 8 in the morning until 11 at night every day, even the last days, when she was not feeling so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu's First Fatality: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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