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Unlike J.D. Salinger, however, who spent much of his literary career hiding from fans, Eggers has used his fame to promote philanthropic causes. In addition to founding 826 National, the proceeds from his latest work, “What is the What,” which relates the life of a Sudanese refugee, will go to aid people displaced by the political turmoil in Sudan...
...reading and math - often to the detriment of other subjects - paying dividends? The NAEP results released this morning provide a modest yes: scores are up slightly, more convincingly in math than in reading. But both fans and foes of NCLB will find support for their positions in the latest results...
...Overall, the news is better on math than on reading. Average math scores have been rising slowly and steadily since 1996. The latest scores continue the trend with small increases - two points on a 500-point scale - for both 4th graders and 8th graders...
...Harvard Coop continues its crackdown on students who jot down book information in the store with plans to take their business elsewhere, undergraduates are devising new ways to skirt the Coop’s latest measures...
...This new round of arrests, following just two weeks after government forces slammed thousands of opposition party workers into jail before the arrival - and subsequent deportation - of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is the latest sign of a government determined to hang on to power at all costs. "The government has panicked," says Ahsan Iqbal, Information Secretary for Sharif's PML(N) party, speaking from an underground safe house. "What are they trying to prove by bulldozing all opposition to their plans? Does anyone think this can be called a democracy...