Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stressful enough to make some parents fret over starting their kid off in the right preschool. But most families like to think there are a few years of grace time, with the dilemmas of carpooling and sports schedules not giving way to full frenzy until, at the earliest, the summer before senior year...
...want to get a sense of the future, take a look at Achieva College Prep Centers, an education company. Give Achieva your child beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from a Gap ad, will even make a teenager, as adviser Tilden...
...kids who need this, who already have 2 1/2 strikes against them, who'll get left behind," says David Breneman, dean of the education school at the University of Virginia. Watson counters that Achieva regularly does pro bono work in poor schools and has a free summer academy in East Palo Alto, a disadvantaged neighborhood. The company also has counseling contracts with seven high schools in low-income San Jose, where Achieva works with hundreds of kids who can't afford Watson's services. "We're doing well and doing good," Watson says. The counseling done free or under contract...
...learn about the character of a firm. Benjamin A. Rahn '99-'00 says students can overestimate the utility of this person-to-person interaction. "A lot use the opportunity to schmooze and get business cards and think it will help them in the process," says Rahn, who spent last summer as a consulting intern. "I don't think that's particularly useful. What is useful is coming prepared with questions to ask different people informally...
...Seahawks The K.C. Line: Now that those sissy boys of summer have left the stage, the time has come for the real men to take over. And nowhere are the men more real, and more ready to tell you about it, than Kansas City, where Gunther Cunningham proudly coaches smash-mouth football and his quarterback bravely tells himself that the home fans aren't booing, they're just saying "Elvis." But it's Mr. Grbac that's going to keep the Chiefs down as they win but do not cover against a Chargers defense that will make Elvis into...