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...students -- and their families -- were victims of a fumbled, four-year experiment to give Richmond, a working-class area northeast of San Francisco, a system based on the principle of choice that was endorsed by George Bush in his education package last month. To compete for students, the district hired hundreds of new teachers, set up magnet schools and began offering special courses in subjects like calligraphy and theatrical-lighting design. The ^ program brought Richmond national acclaim -- and a deficit of up to $29 million...
Whatever their opinions about the new construction, critics agree that the University has at least been paying proper attention to the projects. They point to the fact that Harvard has been working on them for several years with some of the Northeast's premier architectural firms...
Many seniors still seeking jobs are looking farther away geographically. Leape says the majority of Harvard graduates seek employment in the Northeast, but that faltering economies may send them scattered across the country, or even across the globe...
...Students are having a very tough summer, especially here," says Mary Fan Kain, summer jobs counselor at the Office of Career Services (OCS). "The economy in the Northeast is impacting on students who want to stay around here this summer. If you can leave and go somewhere else, you will probably find a lot more possibilities...
...zurdo, means malicious. If you are gauche (left) in France, you are tactless and unsophisticated. Adroit comes from the French a droit (to the right), and we know what maladroit means -- especially when we see a left-handed violinist bowing northwest while the rest of the string section is northeast. A left-handed compliment is not nice, but a right-hand man is indispensable. If you get up on the wrong (left) side of the bed, you are grumpy. Even rwiting about it can give a leftie a migraine...