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...sake but for the sake of its businesses, which need high-quality culture to attract high-quality talent. But even if they sometimes make Charlotte sound like a New South wealth-generating machine that happens to contain people, their boosterism is producing real progress. Charlotte still has problems with smog, schools and sprawl, and a few condo projects have stalled in the credit crunch. But Charlotte's mix of climate, cheap housing, new urban amenities and old habits of materialism are attracting a new generation of workers, including a reverse migration of black professionals from the North. "If you have...
...persona. So she's a good match for Nick, who is beyond being embarrassed by driving a battered yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls. The big problem is his devotion to Tris, which baffles Norah ("I could floss with that girl"). That's Nick's cage; he's a bit too at home in his misery. He is who he is, until Norah helps him be someone better...
...belief system with no basis in reality whatever.” Islamism is then the ideology of Islam, or rather a belief system with an inadequate basis in a belief system with no basis in reality. So you can see why someone who prizes rationality would have a problem with that. And Amis minces no words.Islamism, that deranged mania, is the fuel to terrorism’s apparently unstoppable machine. “It is not merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there...
...information, of a new breed of art. Much of the catalog in Twisted Village is composed of records, CDs, even cassettes that the casual music listener will never, ever hear—music that waits, coiled spring-like, to be explored. Casual observers will point to an apparent tautological problem with the type of music and type of patron that is to be found in a place like Twisted Village: worthwhile music has already found a listening audience, and the unexplored is ignored for good reason. The more adventurous of us know better, and one of the best examples...
...strength of our democracy depend on it. However, while Wagner’s book thoroughly examines how standardized tests, aided by an inability to teach beyond them, dampen the intellectual curiosity of American children and thus reinforce the global achievement gap, he only gets at a piece of the problem. By downplaying America’s first achievement gap—that between low-income minority students and their middle-class counterparts—Wagner’s argument belies a true representation of the academic challenges facing our country and obscures the actions we should be taking. While...