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...Osaka areas, exist primarily to advertise the products of their corporate owners - like the pork sold by the sponsors of the Nippon Ham Fighters. They invest sparingly in player development: only one farm team per franchise is the norm, and teams are often operated by officials from the parent company who know little about the game...
Those paragraphs went off like a grenade in the otherwise unremarkable study. The press ran alarming stories about blameless children being left behind. The White House called a conference on childhood development. Parents snapped up news of both, hoping it wasn't too late to undo whatever damage they had unwittingly done to their kids. "Every parent began to worry," says John Bruer, president of the McDonnell Foundation and author of the book The Myth of the First Three Years. "They thought, 'If I don't have the latest Mozart CD, my child is going to jail rather than Yale...
Sara B. Heller ’02, the director of this production, chose the musical because it contains unusual richness and complexity beneath the veneer of simple (though often hilarious) entertainment. Into the Woods explores many relationships: between siblings, between lovers, between friends, between parents and children. As such, it is highly accessible to a wide audience. Especially relevant for the Harvard student community, however, is the message that all lives are interconnected, and that actions will have residual effects on others. Into the Woods also contains the poignant message that fleeting parent-child relations should be treasured while still...
...pert half-Thai, half-American singer was on the forefront of the Eurasian trend. Today, the majority of top Thai entertainers are luk kreung. Now 20, Young is the first Thai to sign a contract with a major U.S. label, Warner Brothers Records (owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of Time), which she hopes will elevate her into the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera pantheon. Back at home, Young has to contend with a gaggle of luk kreung clones who mimic her brand of bubble-gum pop. The hottest act now is a septet called, less-than-imaginatively, Seven, and three...
...specialist in anxiety disorders, I have found it most effective to meet the parents of an anxious child and work with them first. As parents feel less threatened, they communicate a less fearful attitude, and many children do not need treatment directly. A parent who feels confident about his ability to deal with what comes up is more likely to have a child who feels the same way. This does not deny the individual temperamental differences each of us has from birth, but it is important to be aware of how parents influence their children. LILI ENDLICH Sherman Oaks, Calif...