Few writers have appeared on the American literary scene to such sudden acclaim as the Chinese émigré Ha Jin. His first short-story collection about life in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Ocean of Words (1996), won the Hemingway/PEN...

Ha Jin has published volumes of poetry, collections of short stories, and novels. His short fiction in Ocean of Words: Army Stories (1996) and Under the Red Flag (1997) won praise from critics and two prestigious literary prizes, the PEN/Hemingway and Fl...

Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-26-2003 Kindergarten children at the Westchester Day School, an Orthodox K-8 school in Mamaroneck, are learning the true meaning of Chanukah. At the suggestion of one of their teachers, Jane Grauer, they have agreed to give up...

Our Big World What Will We Do in Kindergarten? We will read. We will draw. We will play. We will ask questions. We will write. How Do You Go to School? Do you walk? ...

In most states, kindergarten attendance is optional. Most school districts are required by law to offer a kindergarten program for interested parents. Districts vary on when they begin taking sign-ups for kindergarten. Most begin pre-registration in early spring for the following fall. The number of...

Prosecutors said Thursday they are investigating allegations that workers at a central Russian hospital taped infants' mouths shut to keep them from crying, in a scandal that has sparked widespread outrage.In a second incident, prosecutors in the Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk said they had...