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Step one: Get a photo. Our sophomore returned to her room/instant photo studio. She set up a light blue background with a Veritas seal in the upper right hand corner and had her roommate take her picture. She had the photo printed in the appropriate size and inserted it into the correct spot. It wasn't perfectly straight, but then most real i.d. pictures aren...
Before I left, friends had described Atlanta as a progressive city for Blacks. They were right: Blacks hold political office and are integrated into the upper levels of business. Without question, there is a proud Black cultural and historical establishment. But the freedom at last really only lasted until the end of the workday...
Welcome to the world of totercise. Scenes similar to the one in Rubenstein's Playorena classroom on Manhattan's Upper West Side are being played out across the country as kiddie exercise becomes the latest boomlet in the ever expanding fitness field. Today pint-size workouts, some for infants as young as six weeks, are offered at many community centers, health clubs and local Ys. Specialized children's exercise centers seem to be springing up everywhere. Playorena, a chain started six years ago, now has 70 centers, mainly on the East Coast, with 7,500 pupils. Gymboree, begun...
Russell Sage is among the most aggressive and innovative recruiters of female applicants. Among its techniques: assigning every arriving freshman an upper-class "big sister," along with a faculty mentor and a student adviser, and weaving "old-girl networks" to create the same kinds of career opportunities for its graduates that "old boys" have traditionally held out to young men. Russell Sage also puts its seniors in touch with alumnae executives who provide career advice and arrange job contacts...
When we reached the outskirts of Camp Aguinaldo we spotted a group of government soldiers outside the gates of the camp. One Filipino informed my friend in Tagalog, the local language, that the government forces had captured some of the rebels, identified by the inverted Filipino flag on the upper arm of their uniforms...