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Seniors Bethany Helms (5th, 18:14.7) and Dave Martin (6th, 25:05.8) provided the only bright spots for the Crimson, turning in the best finishes by individual Harvard men and women since 1995. But, altogether the teams ran less well than their top finishers did. The Harvard women finished fifth out of nine teams, its highest finish in recent years, and the men ninth of nine...
Helms continues to run spectacularly for the Crimson. She placed 11th out of a field of 250 at the New England Championships two weeks ago, and she has been running well all season...
Martin benefited from seeing Helms do so well in her race, which took place right before his. Martin and Helms both rely on maintaining position near the back of the front pack of runners for most of the race and then moving up to the very front late in a race...
...Well, that's the way it is now. If you want to get a sense of the future, take a look at Achieva College Prep Centers, an education company. Give Achieva your child beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from...
...work in poor schools and has a free summer academy in East Palo Alto, a disadvantaged neighborhood. The company also has counseling contracts with seven high schools in low-income San Jose, where Achieva works with hundreds of kids who can't afford Watson's services. "We're doing well and doing good," Watson says. The counseling done free or under contract with the San Jose schools, which is usually done less frequently and in groups, is no match for the intensive weekly help given to those paying top dollar. Still, "some counseling is better than no counseling," says Terry...