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...Anna Sangermano knows from firsthand experience what such programs can do. Now 40, she says she began drinking and doing drugs at 13, dropped out of her Marin County, Calif., high school in the 11th grade and began living on the streets at 20. She smoked so much methamphetamine that her teeth rotted. The county took away two of her sons and placed them in foster care. Finally, in 1999 Sangermano entered drug treatment and then the home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures...
...Many of them these days are stylemakers who, instead of cross-stitching throw pillows, are creating fashion accessories such as belts, purses and bracelets, often decorated with their names or cutesy icons like ladybugs or mushrooms. Stitched pansy purses designed by needlepoint doyenne Erica Wilson were featured in designer Anna Sui's latest runway show, inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits are up in some craft shops, and fashionable boutiques are selling needlepoint bracelets. British artist Sonja Todd has even created postage-stamp-size stitched canvases that re-create the art from classic record...
Beethoven and Fortunato - Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. The acclaimed Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Symphony No.4; Steven Karidoyanes’s Cafe Neon, based on Greek folk themes; and Berlioz’s Summer Nights with mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato. One of only four cooperative orchestra’s in the country, the players control the orchestra to an extent completely foreign to most ensembles. Unlike traditional orchestras, Pro Arte’s players, as well as the conductor, decide what music the Orchestra will perform and who the guest artists will...
...Anna Cabral, president of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility, in Washington, argues that board performance will improve as long as minority recruiting is part of a larger move to choose directors based on skills rather than title. Before last year, Cabral says, she got perhaps one phone call a month from someone looking for a Hispanic director, and the wish was almost always for a well-known figure with board experience at a marquee company. Now the calls come every week, and the primary desire is for expertise in, say, finance or marketing...
...once again by two strong races from nordic junior captain Anna McLoon, the Harvard ski team had its best finish this season at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...