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Listening to children from broken families is Wallerstein's lifework. For nearly three decades, in her current book and two previous ones, she has compiled and reflected on the stories of 131 children of divorce. Based on lengthy, in-depth interviews, the stories are seldom happy. Some are tragic. Almost all of them are as moving as good fiction. There's the story of Paula, who as a girl told Wallerstein, "I'm going to find a new mommy," and as a young woman--too young, it turned out--impulsively married a man she hardly knew. There's Billy, born...
...University seldom, if ever, makes decisions on the basis of whether it will or will not be sued," he said...
Sport at its highest level is a pure rush to the edge of human capability. How often do we get to watch mankind at its absolute best? We hear a composer's symphony or see the scar from a brilliant surgeon's operation, but we seldom see these men and women at the moment of supreme achievement. Sport provides one of the rare theaters where these moments can be glimpsed, and the Olympics are its gaudiest stage, where more records are set and broken than at any other athletic event in the world. By watching athletes like Marion Jones, Michael...
...questions. On math quizzes, students should be able to show how they arrived at their answer. The tests widely used today often rely too much on multiple-choice questions, which encourage guessing rather than thinking. Also, they frequently ignore the importance of knowledge. Today's history tests, for example, seldom expect the student to know any history--sometimes derided as "mere facts"--but only to be able to read charts, graphs and cartoons...
...changing nature of warfare. U.N. peacekeeping, and even the organization itself, was established to regulate conflict between states, but since the end of the Cold War most pressing international crises have tended to be civil wars, usually along ethnic or tribal lines. More often than not the combatants have seldom been answerable to a political structure, let alone a government. That makes nonsense of the traditional U.N. peacekeeping style of absolute neutrality and keeping weapons holstered. The new style of conflict often requires intervention by an outside policing force that can be rapidly deployed with the freedom and the means...