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...funny and brilliant, kind of like her work,” James said of Jen. “She made me consider the contemporary world—why we write, why we make art.” In her senior year at Harvard, James was faced with a difficult career choice She decided to pursue an MFA in creative writing from Columbia. “When deciding between film and writing, I guess I felt writing was the place where I felt the most free to experiment and take risks,” she said. James didn?...
...three Navy SEAL snipers who killed the pirates off the coast of Somalia last weekend were lucky the buccaneers were gullible enough to allow their lifeboat to be towed farther out to sea by the U.S.S. Bainbridge. The shortened towline turned what could have been a trio of difficult shots across hundreds of yards of ocean into relatively easy 30-yd. pops. It's a safe bet future pirates won't be so naive. But the Pentagon is drawing up a project to make it easier to hit targets at much longer distances: a super-sniper rifle called the EXACTO...
...people in the IRS are just like a cross-section of humanity. There are very kind people there, and there are very dysfunctional people who probably shouldn't have a job like that. I think the vast majority of them are honest people who are in a very difficult position...
...took a lot of the fun out of it. The job became incredibly difficult with the restructuring act. The pendulum swung to the other side. The attitude was, "We're going to write everyone up on an installment agreement, everybody's going to try to compromise...
...time to take another look. Without national standards for what our students should learn, it will be hard for the U.S. to succeed in the 21st century economy. Today's wacky patchwork makes it difficult to assess which methods work best or how to hold teachers and schools accountable. Fortunately, there are glimmers of hope that the politics surrounding national standards has become a little less contentious. A growing coalition of reformers - from civil rights activist Al Sharpton to Georgia Republican governor Sonny Perdue - believe that some form of common standards is necessary to achieve a wide array of other...