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...When Cristina Roman, 16, entered the Bronx Guild, a Big Picture school in New York City, she carried just six credits and a rough past. Teacher Priya Linson paired Roman's history project on immigration with an internship two days a week at Congressman Jose Serrano's office, where Roman learned to help process constituents' immigration papers. "I had to be responsible for the first time," she says. It wasn't easy. She arrived at work dressed in painted-on jeans, snapping gum and baffled by the most rudimentary office tasks. "I'd never used a fax or a copy...
...African desert. Enter the world of Donna Karan. Like Ralph Lauren, she is an expert seductress when it comes to style. She can conjure her last trip to Egypt or Israel by simply painting the walls the color of wet sand, burning tangy incense and laying out a rough plywood floor. By the time the frocks come galloping out on platform shoes with heels that are sculpted in such a way as to resemble the handles of kitchen utensils, the clothes seem irrelevant. You're in Donna's world and everything else falls away. In her world it's easy...
...said. “It means that in the next five years, I have to do something better than what I’ve been doing.” Gawande, whose second book on the risks of medicine will be released in April, said he has a rough idea of how he will leverage his $500,000 of cash. He may take a sabbatical in order to finish a history on the scientific experimentation done on humans, which he has been working on for two and a half years. —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached...
...those times when you just have to pat the kid on the back, say ‘great save,’ and go back at her again.” And go back the Crimson did. Wylie sprinted through the box with a breakaway that resulted in a rough tackle, a whistle, and a Harvard penalty kick. Junior co-captain Megan Merritt took the kick and put the equalizer home with ease. After the excitement of Merritt’s tying goal, the support of the home crowd and the bench kept Harvard’s momentum going through...
...with a clutch of conservative opinion writers who had favored the war in Iraq but now think more troops are needed. That was all in nine days. He's so determined to be everywhere that he even did a White House interview with CBS's Katie Couric, despite his rough history with the network and the view among many Republican operatives that she's too liberal. It was a reserved, wintry performance. When they were about to take a break and Couric joked that he had a country to run, he offered, "I've got more than one thing...