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...Rogers tried to impart these qualities to his young viewers. It is a testament to his gifts as a teacher that even today, many young adults retain the lessons Mister Rogers taught them in their childhood; our neighborliness, our ability to confront our fears and even the routines we perform each day upon returning home are attributable at least in part to the kind man in the red cardigan who visited with presidents, filmed an episode in communist Russia, won an Emmy Lifetime Achievement award and asked us to be his neighbor...
...driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door to a primary school! And there's a bomb site that hasn't been cleared up since the 1940s...
...attitudes in France: "There are people who take a day more or less unjustifiably and suddenly, well, another to have a long weekend." Of course, some workers are more likely to be absent than others, often for legitimate reasons - for starters, women. Absenteeism is "the only indicator where females perform worse" than males, says Andrea Ichino, an economics professor at the European University in Florence, citing women's health issues and family commitments as possible reasons. And statistics reveal that manual workers are more likely to be absent from work than their white-collar counterparts, thanks to injurious working conditions...
HARVARD POPS ORCHESTRA. The Pops perform theme music from the silver screen in “Pops Goes to the Movies.” Saturday, March 1 at 8 pm. Tickets $10, $7 for students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Everyone’s going to need to perform the best they can,” senior Jessi Walter said. “It’s going to take all twenty...