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...eight years on her nightly broadcasts, Xue virtually became the Oprah Winfrey of Nanjing, feeling the pain of female listeners while taking their calls and reading their letters on the air. While her own somewhat privileged background was hardly as harrowing, Xue still struggled with tough issues?facing early placement in a "black school" for outsiders, dealing with pent-up feelings towards her displaced parents, and coping with sexual ignorance that led her to believe she could get pregnant from holding hands with a man. In The Good Women of China she dovetails her personal life story with those...
None were tougher than No. 9, which featured a particularly tricky pin-placement at the back of the 65-yard deep green on Saturday. Harvard sophomore Jeen-Joo Kang was one of the few competitors to nail her approach shot in the tiny landing space beyond the depression that divides the green in two. The placement was moved to the front of the green for yesterday’s round, about 20 yards nearer...
...even as first-years take their language placement exams today and upperclass students continue moving in, students say they will recognize the tragic anniversary through both private reflection and at the University-wide memorial service at noon today...
...train home. Jonathan Ressler, 38, who founded Big Fat (one look at the loud, hulking New Jersey native, he says, and you will know where the name comes from), calls such maneuvers "brand baiting." He adds, "Buzz doesn't happen by accident. This is just real-life product placement...
...education and Sacramento resident. She believes that teachers and administrators stereotype students on the basis of race. There are plenty of examples--from the teacher who asked a Latino boy if his parents had jobs (his mother was a school principal) to the Mexican child in an advanced-placement class who was asked whether she was Asian (her classmates couldn't imagine that a Latina could perform so well). "The schools make assumptions along class lines about which parents care and which don't, and parents and children begin to read those signs very early," Gandara says...