Word: spaciousness
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...made last week's school tragedy harder to comprehend was its inexplicable nature. Why this school? Why these kids? Ikeda Elementary is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated elite. The school occupies a spacious, leafy campus in a wealthy neighborhood...
...these kids? Ikeda Elementary School, affiliated with a teacher-training college, Osaka Kyoiku University, is a competitive preparatory school where kindergartners take entrance exams and interview for the coveted 688 spots. Their parents are Japan's educated Elite?doctors, lawyers, professionals?and the school is located on a spacious, leafy campus in a quiet neighborhood. Graduates often eventually go on to enroll in top universities. "If it were a person who had something specific against the school, maybe I could understand," says Ikuyo Yamao, the mother of a fourth-grade girl. "But it was just totally random and that makes...
...turn out to be on a different map entirely. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood that was multiculti way before being multiculti was the thing. Every weekend when I was a child, all six of us in my family would shuttle from our spacious, airy apartment in Hyde Park to the overcrowded, bustling barrio of Pilsen, where Mami would buy carnitas, chicharron and, of course, fresh corn tortillas carefully wrapped in paper, all soft and steaming...
Prominent University and city officials crowd into Cambridge Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio’s spacious office in City Hall on an early afternoon in May, awaiting the announcement of Harvard’s $1 million investment in the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, a joint effort to improve summer school options in the city...
...show opens on May 1 is an exhibit lavishly guest curated by Hamish Bowles, 37, a Vogue fashion editor who may now know Jackie's wardrobe better than she did. Costume shows at the Met are ordinarily confined to cramped basement rooms. Bowles has mounted this one in the spacious upstairs galleries, some of them redesigned to resemble the White House state rooms as Jackie refurbished them...