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...specializing in filmmaking. She laughed when explaining her choice of concentration, given her mother’s concerns about a writing career. “I’m not sure why I chose filmmaking instead,” James said. “Maybe it was a small act of rebellion.” However, James continued to pursue writing throughout her time at Harvard, taking creative writing classes with visiting lecturers Patricia Powell and Brad Watson, as well as with Radcliffe Institute Fellow and novelist Gish Jen ’77. “She was funny...
...know it was not uncommon. I had trainers who would suggest tactics like that. This came all before the Revenue Restructuring Act...
...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...
...strengthened its embargo rules in 1992 and again in 1996 with the Helms-Burton Act, which applied the embargo to foreign countries that traded with Cuba and was issued in retaliation after Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian airplanes. The last decade has seen the U.S. tighten and then relax restrictions depending on the political climate. A 2001 agreement to sell food to Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Michelle has so far remained in place; the United States is now Cuba's main supplier of food, with sales reaching $710 million...
...Child Left Behind Act pushed by President George W. Bush unintentionally exacerbated the problem. It required each state to ensure that its students achieve "universal proficiency" in reading and math - but allowed each to define what that meant. The result was that many states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself, 89% of its fourth-graders were proficient or better in reading...