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First, Sawano slips into the since-I-go-to-Harvard-I-must-be-better-than-you condescension which is always obnoxious. She sneers at the princess for being a "giggly high school dropout" and compares Diana to her personal favorites, Japan's Princess Masako '85, who graduated from fair Harvard...
For one thing, ours continues to be overwhelmingly a system run by governments--mostly local governments, but governments nonetheless. In elementary and secondary education, 89% of American students go to public schools, 9.5% to low-tuition private schools (mostly Catholic) and only 1.5% to private schools with tuition of more...
But by far the highlight of the evening was reliving old favorites, and lang didn't disappoint in this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song...
"What I see is an overwhelming pressure to procreate at all costs, not to adopt and take kids into their own homes," she said. "The choice to 'keep' is not a true choice. We condition the choice by making the adoption process scary and difficult."
A recent recipient of the Heinz Award in the Human Condition, Comer was honored "for his profound influence on thousands of disadvantaged children through his visionary approach to public education."