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...Course at Yale, the curmudgeonly host site of the Yale Invitational, proved a stern teacher for first-time visitor and Harvard freshman Jennifer Cronan one week ago. The rookie, competing in just her second college tournament at the time, finished tied for 51st place at 35-over...
Spokesperson Joanne Hvala of NYU’s Stern School of Business said Ferguson has formally accepted that university’s Herzog Family chair in financial history. She added that NYU is unconcerned by Harvard’s interest in Ferguson...
...boiler room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
...James Y. Stern...
...Chen, the first member of his country's vaunted fifth generation of moviemakers to receive international acclaim, made his reputation with sumptuously detailed stories of stern teachers and yearning students. His latest work, Together, is another fable of pedagogy, but with a much lighter touch?there cannot have been a more charming, disarming movie in Toronto. A 13-year-old violin prodigy arrives in Beijing with his father, who is determined the boy will have the very best teacher?the one, that is, with the clout to make his son famous. This scenario risks stumbling into villainizing or bathos...