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...quite that simple. "Kids can be given the opportunities [to become passionate about a subject or activity], but they can't be forced," says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, who led a landmark, 25-year study examining what motivated first- and seventh-graders in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who don't seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children...
...blocks them from thinking about the long term," says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have to teach them that] they are in charge of their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. "The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist...
Take Dana Buchman, a Seventh Avenue-based designer who has spent 19 years supplying department stores like Bloomingdale's with career staples for women over 35. "I'm 53, and I want to be hip," says Buchman, the mother of two teenage girls, who wears tailored jeans and denim jackets to work. Now, Buchman says, her best-selling items are not beige pantsuits but trendy pieces like leopard-print calf-hair jackets...
Even with this win Harvard has still fallen to seventh in the Ivy rankings, with only the Lions trailing. But the Crimson still has one Ivy League game left—its last game of the season...
...play. Then he asked if the Hotspot was 21 and seemed surprised to hear that it wasn’t. Hell, as a literary entity, The Hotspot wasn’t even born yet. In what could be listed in the O.E.D.’s sixth or seventh definition of “damn shame,” the Cantab is strictly 21-plus, although it’s been rumored that you can get in if your daddy or mommy take you along. —Staff writer Michael A. Mohammed can be reached at mohammed@fas.harvard.edu...