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...said. “We have a lot of different opportunities, like just to know different cultures and to know different kinds of people.”Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a newly elected member of the Cambridge School Committee, said that numbers cannot explain everything.“There are individual success examples right here in Massachusetts in schools which have very challenging demographics, frankly more difficult than Cambridge,” she said. “And they are doing much better than we are in a range of measures.”According...
...their real-life exploits are serving a more dismaying purpose: as vocational instruction, according to detectives and prosecutors in several U.S. cities. The law-enforcement officials say that pimps are using widely available movies to teach minors how to be prostitutes. The documentaries - available online and in video stores - explain the vocabulary and rules of pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function of instructing vulnerable juveniles how to work with a pimp and indoctrinating them into...
...runs for President, Clinton will bring to the race more assets and experience than almost anyone who has never run before--and the kind of liabilities that would send other politicians into permanent rehab. Which may explain why a Clinton ally, aware of all her pluses and minuses, last week struck a fatalistic chord about a 2008 race. "Let's just get it on," he said...
...Summers is on his way out, one would hope that the secret meetings to determine the course of the curricular review and to discuss concerns about Summers would be things of the past. Instead, faculty members seem unable (or unwilling) to articulate their actual grievances with Summers or explain the motivation behind the HCCR. In lieu of clarity, we have closed door sessions; instead of open discussion of the troubles facing the Faculty, we have accusations of anti-Semitism...
...receiving extended applause at the end of his 30-minute speech and words of praise from numerous audience members. But it was a prickly subject for the embattled president, who made headlines last year when he hypothesized that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might partially explain the dearth of females in science and engineering fields. “You can imagine that I was a little bit puzzled as to what I should say in speaking to a conference on women in leadership,” Summers joked at the beginning of his remarks. Grasping...