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...kids excited about sitting down to a balanced meal with their family instead of in front of the TV or computer with some chips? That was the question nagging at Julia Jordan, a professor of hospitality management at New York City College of Technology. Her answer: the Dinner Party Project. Jordan helped create the school-based program for fifth- through seventh-graders five years ago to teach students all about throwing the perfect dinner party. Its goal is not to turn the kids into mini Martha Stewarts. Instead, it aims to get kids involved and excited about the possibilities...
Jordan has followed up with families after dinner parties. The experience, she says, "changes the way families think about their lives." The project also seems to have a lasting impact on the teachers who help lead it. Many say it inspires them to continue to integrate food and cooking into their curriculum. "We've had teachers from Pennsylvania to California tell us, 'We now cook at home differently. We value food differently.'" And so the next step for Spoons is teacher training. This fall the first group of teachers will attend national training at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan...
...1960s, Harlem-born Moses worked as the field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and as director of its Mississippi Project to increase the African American electorate in the state...
...your resignation? Were you surprised? LHS: It was not an easy day and that was a bright and warm moment. It gave me a feeling of satisfaction that some of the things that I had tried very hard to push for and do and to project had been noticed and appreciated by Harvard students. I’m grateful to the students who were there for me that day. I always tried to be there for Harvard students...
...president to speak up for our most cherished ideals, he failed us. According to a January Institutional Investor article, Summers’ protégé, economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82, engaged in rank conflicts of interest while directing Harvard’s USAID-sponsored project to set up Russian capital markets. Summers knew a great deal about the case. He had testified on the matter in federal court, and Shleifer’s investments had, according to Institutional Investor, long been known in the economics department. Summers was surely aware of the $26.5 million in legal...