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These aren’t the church basement sandbox and Lincoln Log preschools of our childhood memories. The world has changed since then, and nursery school programs with it. In fact, most are no longer called nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such...
Elle Woods’ video application to Harvard Law School (HLS) marked a high point in the staid institution’s digital coming of age. But even before Legally Blonde, Harvard Law School had entered the digital era, a fact made clear in 1997 when the school made cyber.law.harvard.edu an actual Internet destination...
Best known for its dignified colonial buildings and staid Communist sensibility, Hanoi has never been a place to go for hopping nightlife. But that was before the Seventeen Saloon rode into town...
...once staid IMAX now has Hollywood sizzle and a new customer base: multiplex owners. The updated business model appears to be working. In the past year, IMAX had successful runs with three Hollywood titles, including Spider-Man 2, and has inked deals for 25 theaters worldwide. IMAX now operates 245 theaters in 35 countries, including China and India...
...decade. He made his reputation as a hard-nosed reporter. Beginning in the mid-'90s, as an investigative editor, Plenel - along with managing director Jean-Marie Colombani and board chairman Alain Minc - sought to give an aggressive edge to France's most prestigious daily, founded in 1944 as a staid "newspaper of reference." Colombani and Minc brought in outside investors, in the process reducing the staff journalists' longstanding financial control of the paper from a majority to a blocking minority. Plenel led the editorial makeover, hunting for scoops and flexing the paper's political muscle. Le Monde broke the story...