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...implement antibullying programs, which have proved effective in other countries. In Massachusetts, the Executive Office of Public Safety has set aside $1 million in federal money to help schools identify potential bullies and aid their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills. Administrators have also created zero-tolerance disciplinary guidelines...
...fruit seller at the haymarket greets a regular: "Pedro goes tonight." On a break at a downtown construction site, workers open their tabloid Boston Heralds from the back, where the sports are. Out in Wellesley, lawn sprinklers kick on, and investment managers for Fidelity pad sleepily up wide driveways, flipping through sections of the self-serious Boston Globe, past Nation, Business and Arts to the baseball coverage...
...graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, she committed herself to ensuring, "all doors are open to women at Harvard...
...women also started their 1999-2000 campaign with a discouraging loss to MIT, 15-12. However, they immediately bounced back after the loss with a 19-8 thumping of Brandeis. Harvard tallied seven wins on the season, including Brandeis, Boston College, Cornell, Tufts, NYU, Wellesley and Johns Hopkins...
...They were more impatient, less willing to go through the rituals" like Radcliffe's "Jolly-Ups" or Wellesley's get-to-know-you dances, Lionette recalls...