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...definitely protect the identities of the students involved, and that we have an equal responsibility to inform the Harvard community about a serious issue it rarely confronts. The students' class year and house are just two pieces of a picture that may better inform the community. For example, the reader may have formed a different conception of the issue if the undergraduates were both first-years--a detail that might, or might not, indicate a problem of stress and emotional difficulty for first-years...
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...think about it very much. It's quite a conscious strategy for me as I think it was for him. In my early writing I was thinking of my ideal reader as a European, heterosexual woman--Mrs. Nabokov in fact, who did actually read my writing and would write me nice letters about it. I think I had sort of chosen her as my reader because I thought if I think of her then I won't just be nudging another gay person in the ribs with little in references. In other words I would be forced to render whatever...
Both techniques have proved appealing to students. Carol Ovndo, 12, arrived in Fairfax County from Guatemala three years ago without knowing a word of English. Her immersion in all-English courses rapidly enabled her to become a proficient speaker and reader. "It was scary," she recalls. "But my teacher showed me pictures, and my friends helped, and sometimes we just all acted things out." At the Bell Multi-Cultural High School in Washington, Nguyen Nguyen, 15, who arrived from Vietnam a year ago, takes courses in both his native language and English. "I have to understand in Vietnamese first...
During the question and answer session, Gwertzman said the newspaper must print foreign stories of interest to the reader, even if it means narrowing coverage...