Word: pearsons
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...years ago, Public School 190 in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City found itself in a quandary. "The school was small, the parent body was ambitious, and we didn't have any money," recalls Debrah Pearson Feinn, whose daughter Lily was a second-grader at the time. The arts budget had been cut, and in this neighborhood, thick with artists, a school without art was hardly a school at all. Brainstorming at a back-to-school party, parents came up with the solution: since the area was gaining a reputation not only as an artists' colony but also...
Dyke seems just the man to knock a new sensibility into the sprawling bureaucracy. He comes from a commercial TV background--he was chairman and chief executive of Pearson Television from 1995 to 1999 after leaving London Weekend Television, where he was group chief executive from 1990 to 1994--and is, according to Jonathan Davis, media expert at the London Economics consultancy, "the hardest-nosed businessman in the British-TV industry." Dyke prefers to stress his high aspirations for the Beeb, telling his staff last month, "Our aim is to be a place where people work collaboratively, enjoy their...
...Freshman No. 4 Dylan Patterson has been plagued by back injuries for much of the season, and missed Saturday's match as a result. Playing through pain yesterday, he took Princeton's Eric Pearson to five sets before falling...
...freshman Dylan Patterson defeated Will Evans. At the No. 4 spot, sophomore Peter Karlen defeated Eric Pearson, while junior Andrew Merrill beat Peter Kelly at the No. 5 spot...