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...bright spot is Chief Dull Knife College, named for a Northern Cheyenne hero and fervent advocate for education. It and 36 other tribal colleges and universities, with a total of about 27,000 students, are a little-known part of American higher education. Like the other colleges, Chief Dull Knife was founded in the 1970s in protest over the curriculums that white institutions offered. "There was no connection with the reality at home," says its president, Richard E. Littlebear. The Indian students often had to endure racial cruelty too. "They called us 'prairie niggers,'" recalls...
...controversy Ayers has kept a low profile. School officials say he is on a previously scheduled yearlong sabbatical and occasionally visits his campus office. He regularly posts musings about politics, education and the economy on his personal website. (The site's commentary section has an ongoing debate between fervent supporters and vitriolic detractors as part of a recent blog post by Ayers.) A new edition of his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, is expected to be published next year, and a film version is reportedly in development. Says Schubert: "He's resilient - he'll come back and continue to do good...
...those already in office. The fact that Bloomberg himself has been the one leading the charge for revoking the term limits should make anyone skeptical of the idea that the proposal is much more than a cynical attempt to stay in power. Bloomberg has not always been such a fervent opponent of term limits—in 2002, he vetoed a measure that would have extended terms for several City Council members—and his current effort smacks of political opportunism. There is no case to be made for overturning term limits in New York—and even...
...think of it as an anarchist’s utopian fantasy). It may also be objected that what I am actually recommending is the country’s dissolution. I recall Einstein’s story of a colleague who, in response to the sage scientist’s fervent pleas for nuclear disarmament, quipped: “Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?” I’ll never plunge into such depths of misanthropic despair, but I could with some degree of sincerity ask the same question about...
...body in physical expression of the music. Her expressive rubato allowed her voice to soar above the orchestra, but the musical lines could have been longer and more nuanced. Before the last note drew to an exciting end, a particularly enthused man seated in the first balcony shouted a fervent “Bravo,” as the rest of the audience joined in enthusiastic applause. The main course of the night was served with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Originally written for piano, the ten-piece suite was orchestrated...