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LIKE any concerned parent, Ronald Laconi, president of the Chartis Private Client Group, sat with his son through a security presentation for college freshmen a few weeks ago. “We spent a good hour and a half hour going through the safety procedures,” he said. Enlarge This Image Aaron Houston for The New York Times Christie Alderman, vice president at the insurance firm Chubb & Son, said parents needed to consider whether their position would make them an attractive target for a lawsuit.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 04:58 0 comments

Money can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime.

Saturday, September 11th, 2010 at 06:40 0 comments

BERKELEY, California — Amid the uproar over the proposed mosque near the site of the Sept.

Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 23:29 0 comments

PHILADELPHIA — Duong Nghe Ly can’t wait to begin his senior year at South Philadelphia High School. A day of violence there last year changed his life, and he wants to learn if his school has been transformed as well.

Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 17:28 0 comments

AS a Harvard professor who teaches introductory economics, I have the delightful assignment of greeting about 700 first-year students every fall. And this year, I am sending the first of my own children off to college.

Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 02:50 0 comments

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their Rhode Island classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance at their persistently troubled high school

Saturday, September 4th, 2010 at 18:35 0 comments

SAN JUAN, Texas – When Ruth Garcia’s twins are born in two months, they’ll have all the rights of U.S.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 10:02 0 comments

The University of California has appointed an official to manage spending and operations at President Mark G. Yudof’s new private residence, after Mr. Yudof ran up nearly $700,000 in expenses and involved senior university officials in time-consuming personal matters over a rented mansion in the Oakland Hills.

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 05:20 0 comments

Five minutes before midnight on June 30, movers hauled the last boxes from a spectacular rented home in the Oakland Hills. The tenant’s lease was about to expire, and in his haste to get out, he left behind thousands of dollars of damage to the hardwood floors and Venetian plastered walls. A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area for The New York Times.

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at 20:57 0 comments