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When Jim Barksdale started school in Jackson, Miss., he had trouble learning to read. In the third grade he still stumbled over simple words. So his parents got him a private tutor, and that changed his life. He became a good student and later an exceptional corporate leader. When he sold Netscape, he pocketed $700 million. Last week he brought a big chunk of that money back to his home state...
...first the Skakels cooperated with police. Tommy told them he was home by 9:30 and writing a paper on Abraham Lincoln. Michael, who said he had been visiting cousins in the latter part of the evening, was not a suspect. Kenneth Littleton, then 23, a tutor for the boys, was suspected briefly and gave testimony. But within a year, the Skakels stopped cooperating. No charges were filed, and the case languished for 16 years...
Questions of image versus reality aren't new to television or to major media. After all, according to Christopher D. H. Row, a resident tutor in art history and theology in Kirkland House, Egyptian pharaohs used to write over their predecessors' cartouches. Perhaps in response, in more modern times National Geographic magazine digitally moved a pyramid so the picture would fit on its front cover. Television has also been no stranger to image editing: Baseball stadiums sometimes replace local ads with national ones in the television coverage. But CBS' decision raises new questions of whether television can be trusted when...
...Undergraduates make their feelings known to the [head] tutor," he says, "and it gets to the chair very quickly...
...secret that there has been a significant and unfortunate gap between the courses in American politics that our concentrators would like to take and the courses available from our regular faculty," the department's head tutor, Associate Professor Louise M. Richardson, wrote in an e-mail message...