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...impressed with Cain's honesty and straightforwardness. I tried to lead her into my little traps, asking, "Don't you think it would be a good idea to let ethnic reporters report ethnic stories?" and "Wouldn't a speech code in the building be a good idea?" To her credit, Cain didn't buy it. Experience will matter more than race in assigning sensitive stories, and in-building squabbles will be solved by mediation, not speech codes, she said...
...have captured most of the countryside, are in total control of Kabul. Says Ganguly: "People almost welcome them because they're more administrative and organized than the government. At the same time, Afghanistan is not a fundamentalist country and will have to get used to a strict Islamic code." The most surprising aspect of the takeover is the complete disappearance of government forces, who may still control the surrounding mountains. A rift between government factions led by President Burharunuddin Rabbani and Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had been patched up months ago, and the two controlled the infrastructure left by Najibullah...
...storied history of snobbishness and, of course, Ted Kaczynski '61. I would rarely again have the opportunity to talk to Ralphie while awaiting those huge slices of Pinocchio's pie, the best in Cambridge. And I thought that I would have to get used to a new area code (666?), given how far the Quad is from the Square...
Principal Harris makes a funny observation, but a shrewd one, about why her well-ordered Catholic school works. "We provide the same thing a gang provides: family, code, color, belonging and activity." And her gang is growing. Enrollment at St. Adalbert's increased by 41 special students this year, to 413, thanks to the most closely watched educational experiment in the country. This month Cleveland becomes the first city in the nation to allow children from poor homes to attend private schools, including religious schools, using government money to cover most or all of the tuition. State-financed school-choice...
...Dress Code Personified...