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...children arrive at school undernourished, neglected and in poor health, many feel that schools have little choice but to try to fill the gap left by the collapse of families and other social supports. "Parents just aren't there today," says David Lawrence, principal of the Thomas J. Quirk Middle School in Hartford, Conn. "We still are. The kids can't be left to founder...
...early days, the writer regards the country less as a diplomat than as a romantic novelist manque. Leningrad is "one of the most poignant communities of the world . . . I know that in this city, where I have never lived, there had nevertheless been deposited by some strange quirk of fate -- a previous life, perhaps? -- a portion of my own capacity to feel and to love...
...other factor is a drop in the number of students who apply to more than one Ivy League school, said Al Quirk, dean of admissions and financial aid at Dartmouth...
...have a feeling that we're seeing the beginning of fewer multiple applications," Quirk said...
...Quirk said that efforts by the Ivy League to recruit more applicants have increased in the last five years to counter the expected demographic drop...