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...life has been predicated on not getting what I hoped I would get," Wang confesses. She spent the first third of her life training to be an Olympic figure skater. Every waking hour was devoted to the sport; she studied classical ballet at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. When she didn't make the Olympic team, "I had to learn a big life lesson," she says, "which is that when you are so obsessed by something and you can no longer do it, you dust yourself off and keep going...
...average, affluent Russians have spent $1,084 on a ring...
Russian men buy more shoes than any other luxury accessory and have spent on average up to $556 on a pair...
...addressing how much of the system’s money reaches the classroom, committee member Joseph G. Grassi said that 82 percent of all funds are spent on instruction. And when asked whether the schools are making good use of their $23,000 in per pupil expenditures—more than double the state average—Grassi boasted that the district chooses to make free many programs that other districts do not, such as all-day kindergarten, busing, and sports...
...Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a longtime critic of the district’s finances, countered Grassi by citing data from the Mass. Department of Education that show that only 29 percent of the district’s dollars are spent in the classroom. She added that Grassi’s figure was inflated by money spent on school-based administrators like deans...