Word: taylors
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...like Alexis Rasley of Oak Park, Ill., if they occasionally get too involved. Last fall a homework assignment for fifth-graders at the public Horace Mann School was to build a mini-space station that accounted for food, water, waste treatment, radiation shielding and zero gravity. Rasley's son Taylor, 10, spent countless maddening hours toiling at a basement countertop surrounded by cut-open soda bottles. "He just kept sitting there saying, 'I don't know what to do,'" Rasley says. "When the frustration level gets that high, you say, 'O.K., I'm going to help,' because the situation...
...mind, and parents might spend fewer nights agonizing about whether their children were overburdened or understimulated by homework. Of course, the debate over national standards is a complex one, and cramming for a national test could mean more mindless at-home drudgery for kids. But not necessarily. When Taylor Hoss, 10, of Vancouver, Wash., came home last year with packets of extra homework assigned in preparation for the state's new mandatory assessment exams, his parents shuddered. But as they worked through the test-prep material, the Hosses were pleased with the degree of critical thinking the questions required...
...that "that's true of most festivals, not just Sundance." This year the buzz is swarming around Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune," starring Glenn Close, which opens the festival Thursday evening, as well as Allison Anders' new feature, "Sugar Town," in which former Duran Duran member John Taylor portrays a washed-up rock star. No word yet on whether any of the entries involves two guys in a car and girl on the road...
...discrete appeal to the Joint Committee was foreclosed on Dec. 29, 1997, not by any process of the Committee but by letter from Anne Taylor, General Counsel of Harvard University. She informed Peter's lawyer, Matt Feinberg, that she had thoroughly investigated Peter's case and found no evidence of abuse of process to warrant consideration by the Joint Committee. Additionally, she told Feinberg that she did this investigation personally and made the decision that our complaint would not be considered by the Committee. In fact, so far as Peter and Matt Feinberg and I can tell based...
...President's pleasure, effectively review the President's decision? How can a committee answering to Dean Knowles effectively review a decision of the President? Wasn't this a sham, just a tactic to ensnare Peter's case in procedure while his time ran out? Same signal from Anne Taylor...