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...Those lyrics, from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods come to life in Bryan Andes and Miranda Critz's first-grade classes in New York City's Midtown West Public School 212. Eight years ago Andes and colleague Karl Heist initiated a family studies program for their kindergarten classes. The following year those students, now first graders, embarked upon a curriculum in which they explored a thriving industry in their neighborhood - restaurant row. Then, in 2005, Andes and Heist had a revelation. Why not add another curriculum geared toward the other industry that is a prominent part of the school...
...Birdie still top the schools' most-popular list (Little Shop of Horrors was actually No. 1 for 2007), a growing number of high schools are turning to more adventurous fare for their theatrical rite of spring: big, adult epics like Les Miz; irreverent satires like Urinetown; dark musicals like Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "There's a sense of we want to do something new and edgy," says Jeff Knoedler of Newton South High School outside Boston. "There's only so many times you can trot out Oklahoma! Our kids are doing musicals starting at camp since the fifth grade...
...cell phone or a radio—little commodities that are especially important in a place with no electricity, said Alexander B. Fabry ’09, a member of Lebone Solutions. The device was designed by a team of six students and alumni, including Van Vuuren, Fabry, Stephen H. Lwendo ’10, David M. Sengeh ’10, Zoe Sachs-Arellano ’07, and graduate student Aviva Presser. Professors David A. Edwards and Peter R. Girguis advised the project. Van Vuuren, who is from Pretoria, South Africa, said the privilege of a Harvard education...
...clients were involved in any gunfire and say police are covering up the real reason for the beating - that they may have mistaken one of the passengers for a man wanted in the shooting of a fellow officer. That shooting, just two days earlier, took the life of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. The officer had just stopped a car with three men suspected in a mid-day bank robbery when one of the men opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing Liczbinski in the middle of a residential street. One suspect was arrested, another was killed in a shootout shortly...
Deviating from Core Curriculum practices, both newly approved courses will be limited in enrollment and will be taught solely by professors. Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt will be co-teaching the Humanities 10 course with Menand. Neither class will employ teaching fellows. The faculty members will lead lectures as well as sections, and students will be required to obtain faculty permission in order to enroll in either of the two courses...