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While traditionally first-years are required to arrive on campus during the second weekend in September, this fall the date has been pushed back to the first weekend in September. First-years participating in the various opening week programs, such as the First-year Outdoor Program and the Freshman Urban Program will arrive in Cambridge next weekend...
...Earlier this month researchers at Stanford presented the results of the first significant study to explore this issue. They found that teachers from Teach For America, a highly regarded program that places college graduates in tough urban and rural schools with just five weeks of training, performed just as well as the other teachers in the Houston, Texas schools that were examined. The study was sponsored by the conservative Fordham Foundation, which triumphantly proclaimed that the results prove that "it?s not necessary to spend an extended period in an ed school in order to be effective...
...counterpoint?" asks a publicist at Doubleday. The female voice she has in mind is that of novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan, whose second novel, "Look at Me," will be published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday on September 18. Egan has a lot going for her: superagent Binky Urban, a 15-city reading tour, and confirmed coverage in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, O, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Talk, Paper, Vanity Fair and the NYT Book Review. The plot, according to Egan?s publisher...
Gray puddles fill the ruts along a cinder-paved alley leading to the Lianjiao Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived...
...morphed into a no-child philosophy. In Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, the population would be shrinking if not for an influx of migrants from the countryside. The news has stirred China's usually torpid parliament, which has proposed amending the one-child policy this summer so that some urban couples can have a second child. Each province would decide which birth-control procedures best suit its circumstances. "A one-size-fits-all family-planning policy just doesn't work," says Zhao Baige, a director-general at the State Family Planning Commission...