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...school launched a program that provides full scholarships to more than 275 Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students to participate in a six-week summer program. It also added practical and enrichment courses for Boston-area professionals...
...impracticality of practical men, and this is clearly what controlled the Bush Administration's first response to the plight of the Kurds. Not wanting to become bogged down in Iraq's internal affairs, we left the Kurdish rebellion to its fate. We should have seen that a six-week air war was already a massive intervention in Iraq's affairs. If Saddam was dangerous enough to be bombed out of Kuwait, then his internal enemies, the Kurds and the Shi'ites, ought to have been helped to win themselves some breathing room...
FELD BALLETS/NY. One of America's most talented and stable ballet choreographers, Eliot Feld is starting a six-week season -- which is no small achievement in recessionary times. Along with four premieres, there will be fond looks back at early lyrical works like At Midnight (1967). Jan. 29-March...
...Last week Sears, Roebuck, faced with declining sales, announced a salary freeze for 20,000 of its 330,000 employees; Macy's was combatting speculation that recent losses might undermine its already precarious financial position. Meanwhile, Child World, the nation's second largest chain of toy stores, declared a six-week moratorium on paying its bills so that it would have enough cash to keep its shelves stocked through the holiday season...
...says Chase. "We worried that it would be an embarrassment. That people might say, 'Wouldn't you just know a woman chief would do this to us?' " Any criticism was deflected by Watson's refusal to regard her pregnancy as an impediment, other than planning to take a six-week maternity leave after the baby arrives. Watson's older sister, Karen Philippi, who is a manager with the Houston water department, likens her to "women who used to have their babies in the field and go on picking cotton." True, but her condition did force Watson to reluctantly turn down...