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...Everyone seems to have a lot of house pride before they really know anything,” said Andrew P. Oakland ’09, newly in Adams...
Alex Rabens, a senior at the Head-Royce School in Oakland, Calif., who applied early to Harvard for the Class of 2010 and was deferred, said he believes that the SAT problems only add more stress to an already agonizing period...
...rather than patient: “thinking less” and swinging with a former confidence.Following the summer, he was tempted to join classmates Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff in signing professional contracts and ending his time in Cambridge prematurely. He engaged in brief negotiations with the Oakland A’s, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds before ultimately returning to O’Donnell Field for one last go-round.“Honestly, my swing feels really good,” Salsgiver says. “And I have a heightened sense of purpose. It?...
...with the philosophy growing out of an exercise conducted by the city to rethink the school system as it comes back to life. Under the direction of Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, the BNOB education committee interviewed 20 national experts, examined school programs from New York City to Oakland, Calif., and called in the Rand Corp. for advice...
...teaches at Mills College in Oakland, California, is already deep into her first novel, and she's looking to broaden her subject matter beyond China. That's good for her, but a loss for readers hungry to understand her changing homeland. Li is an invaluable resource. China's post-Tiananmen generation has produced precious few serious authors, and virtually none who can write with Li's fluency in English. It seems that exile has become a requirement for China's most honest writers?the country's only Nobel prizewinner, Gao Xingjian, lives in France?but Li's exile may prove...