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...nature of judgment, rubbed many people the wrong way. “As a former denizen of Harvard, I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions,” Ignatieff wrote, concluding, “Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what’s what than Nobel Prize winners.” Ignatieff’s old Harvard colleagues said the article perplexed and disappointed them. In an article billed as an apology, Ignatieff seemed to spend a lot of time attributing responsibility...
...students the opportunity to take college courses because the state would no longer subsidize the costs for them. For one student she described, this meant a rapid downward spiral—one week the teenager was a happy and successful student, and the next she was on a bus back to Mexico. Thanks to an aggressive fundraising campaign, Watterson has managed to raise enough money to pay for these subsidies for her affected students for the next year or so, but presumably, this money will run out in the near future...
Other observers pointed to the opening of a new train line linking Beijing with Lhasa in July 2006 as a turning point. Whereas previously the only access to Lhasa had been through a bone-shaking, two day bus ride or an exorbitant plane ride, the cheaply priced train has doubled the number of tourists entering Tibet and made access much easier for tens of thousands of Chinese seeking to cash in on a local economy juiced by billions of dollars of investment from Beijing. Chinese already outnumber ethnic Tibetans in Lhasa, and many Tibetans felt that they might...
...doing a survey in Spanish about Chipotle, according to Andrea Catalano, the Chipotle employee overseeing the promotion. A. Lowell Richardson, a freshman at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, was getting his money’s worth from free-burrito day, too. He had come over on the bus from Berklee and, after getting one burrito, got back in line for a second. He planned to wait to eat the second one, and left satisfied. “The pain wouldn’t be worth the gain,” he said. “Boloco and Qdoba...
...Italian ancestor. My athletically-challenged self was perfectly happy not hanging from the monkey bars or playing dodgeball at recess. I helped her with her math homework and she taught me how to play box ball. Every afternoon, after finishing homework (that I had mostly done on the bus anyway), watching “Dirty Dancing” or “Dave” for the 100th time, we would venture out into the neighborhood on our bikes. Naturally athletic (and a future volleyball and track superstar), Jenny rode around hands-free on her cool bike—Titanic...