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		<title>Cross-Country, Conducting &amp; Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote recently to our parents: I’d like to shine a spotlight on our cross-country program, a sport that for the most part practices and competes without a lot of attention. In the lower school, we have more than 70 kids who participate in the program, and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Write a Check to the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this brief update, the financial markets are suffering through another dismal day. The airwaves are full of commentators who are saying a lot about what is going on and the potential impacts of recent events, but no one has a clear sense of when the market will turn. Most of our national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Children Be Successful Students</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lower School Parents Night, 2008, excerpted remarks: I’d like to start by saying that today’s quote of the day from Google is: “It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing.” This quotation does a great job of capturing the spirit of the work of the faculty, families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convocation Remarks, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Later in the ceremony we will hear about this summer’s Beijing Olympics, and I would like to take just a minute or two to talk about the original Olympics, the ones hosted a long, long time ago — nearly 2,800 years ago, to be exact — by the Greeks. The Olympics were started in [...]]]></description>
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