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...first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform with her friends Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey; he took them on, changed Noel's name to Paul and got the group a contract with the new Warner Bros. Records. Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled first album (1962) went to No. 1 and stayed in the Top 20 for two years...
...this took a toll on sales and earnings at upscale department stores and chi-chi fashion houses around the world. Luxury department store sales are down 25% to 30% on average from their peak in early 2008, estimates Aggarwal...
...process. Losick, who joint-teaches the undergraduate course Molecular Cellular Biology 52, is one of a number of faculty members who have embraced the clicker as a teaching supplement. “I like seeing the class become raucous because students are discussing—going through what it took to understand the material.” Applied math concentrator Michael T. Fountaine ’12 said that a Greek language class that he took in the spring relied heavily on a computer program that facilitated interactions with other students learning Greek at Stanford...
...easy, but reform advocates like Gladys Carrion, who took over as commissioner of the state's nearly $4 billion Office of Children and Family Services at the start of 2007, think they know what the broader solution is: changing the culture of a juvenile-justice system that currently uses a correctional model - detaining youth in facilities with varying degrees of security up to prison-like settings - to one more focused on treating the traumas at the root of their bad behavior. Many of the estimated 100,000 young offenders across the nation are from troubled families in which there...
...symbolism was impossible to ignore. Last Tuesday, Sept. 8, the chief of the Kenyan police - tainted by accusations that since he took charge, around the time of Kenya's presidential election in 2007, his men had waged a campaign of illegal killings - was fired and put in charge of the postal service. His deputy, meanwhile, was quite literally put out to pasture, with a new job at the Ministry of Livestock...