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...Charles M." to greater effect. Just as in his live performances, the standout sideman on this album is pianist Stephen Scott. The vibrancy of Scott's solos safeguard the moderate pace of the album from becoming sluggish. His swinging, soulful contribution to the '30s chestnut "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square," combined with the lyrical opening statement and driving improvisation of Rollins, make this performance the highlight of the album...
...confirmed my hypothesis last summer when I took a class on Shakespeare's plays from the University of California at Berkeley's online extension school. As for the course itself, I was pleasantly surprised. The lectures were enthralling and the work demanding. The feedback from my professor, Mary Ann Koory, was voluminous, near instantaneous and often launched a spirited e-mail chain between us. I had much more contact with her than with many a teacher who presided over a packed lecture hall. And in certain ways, I got to know her much better than my own thesis adviser...
During World War II, he served in naval intelligence in Morocco and Europe and later taught at Princeton and Berkeley before coming to Harvard...
While minority admissions at the University of California system overall have dipped only slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998, they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley, for example, the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students, vs. 1,013 in 1997. In response, the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority high schools--and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach, from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers...
Children may also react negatively if the room remains but has been stripped of their presence. Two years after Dena Cowan Klapperich, 37, a clinical psychologist in Lindenhurst, Ill., had left home to live with her boyfriend, her mother, U.C. Berkeley psychologist Carolyn Cowan, converted Dena's old room to an office. "The first time she came over after that, she couldn't walk in there," Cowan recalls...