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...Everyone wins," says Mary Anne Ward, president of Schools at Work, a work-site-school consulting firm. "Companies can set up a school for as little as a few thousand dollars and then use the school as a recruiting and retention tool. Overcrowded school districts don't have to find extra space for their kids. And parents get to be near their children and be more involved in the school...
Lorrayne S. Ward '03, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. This summer she is a counselor for a Phillips Brooks House Association day camp in South Boston, where she lives with five other counselors in a two-bedroom apartment in the Old Colony housing projects...
...there is an issue in play here that seems to have been ignored: Al Gore was right. He insisted on keeping the ultimate choice available to a woman, and refused to consider an alternative that would effectively render the fetus a ward of the state even against the will of the mother. The vice president clung to a fundamental tenet of the pro-choice movement: Until a woman gives birth, the burgeoning existence inside her must belong absolutely to her. No prison guard, and certainly no legislator, should be able to take away that autonomy...
...actors when their TV series is canceled--especially if they're a moose and a flying squirrel, which doesn't leave a lot of room to stretch beyond type. We learn in the opening moments of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle that the eponymous heroes of Jay Ward's beloved (and weirdly iconic) '60s television series have retreated to their home turf, Frostbite Falls; that their typical residual check has dwindled to 3.5[cents]; that the pretty forest where they once romped has been reduced to stumps...
Christopher John Farley's article "A Whiter Shade of Pale" about white rapper Eminem greatly offended me [MUSIC, May 29]. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, belongs in a psychiatric ward. How can Americans wonder why tragedies such as Jonesboro and Columbine happen when music with offensive lyrics like Eminem's are out there for any and all to absorb? Don't listen to Eminem's degrading lyrics. If he doesn't have an audience, he has no career. There is much better music around. KENDAL DAVIS Hubertus...