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Every new parent knows that having a baby means weeks without sleep. Should it also mean weeks without a paycheck? That's the stark choice confronting Shannon Thomas, 21, a preschool teacher in southeastern Massachusetts. Her employer, the Boys and Girls Club of Taunton, agreed to hold her job for about six weeks after her June 18 due date but didn't offer any paid maternity leave. "My rent, food, the hospital--those costs aren't going away," Thomas says. So she quit her $500-a-week job three weeks ago and applied for state welfare assistance. "I'd rather...
...brain-off in front of the judges and several hundred non-winners. In 2005 the finalists were Sanders, Payne and Hinman. We wouldn't dare say who took home the trophy, except to note that the most dangerous word in the final puzzle was 1 Across. The clue: "Stark and richly detailed, as writing...
...stark contrast to the exams, problem sets and theses that typified the rest of their undergraduate lives, the Class of 2006’s final days were punctuated by baseball, hula hoops and roller-coasters. Courtesy of the 2006 Senior Class Committee (SCC), the soon-to-be latest guard of Harvard graduates was treated to a series of events collectively known as “Senior Week.” The latest edition of this Harvard tradition largely followed the same script as previous years, but according to those that put the events together, the Class of 2006 took Senior...
...bold tact might succeed in an environment where politicians are scurrying for accomplishments before the next election, Summers faced faculty members with lifetime tenures who had little tolerance for his prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies of Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability to develop a bold plan for Harvard and his decided failure in getting others to buy into that plan. Summers brought a penchant for controversy unseen in Mass. Hall ever before, stirring perhaps a half-dozen controversies that each would have been tenure-defining mishaps...
...celebrate his 65th birthday, do not bust out your dusty tambourine. Skip the Zimmerman bus tour of Hibbing. Instead, play those early songs again. You'll shiver at their stark profundity - at the way words, simple chords and a stray mutt's voice could combine to form an immediate and lasting legacy of pop poetry. Dylan was destined, as the beautiful lyric to "Mr. Tambourine Man" has it, "to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free." In following that fate, he taught the rest of us to dance with...