Word: authorly
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...kids say stuff like that? Yes, they do, and we're not listening very well. Most public schools spend little effort evaluating the mental health of their students, even though every student gets inoculated against measles. Meantime, says James Garbarino, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them, "the number of kids who need help has shot up significantly." In California there's only one counselor--to say nothing of a trained psychologist--for every 1,000 students...
Nevertheless, Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson noted that the recent study directly contradicts the controversial work of conservative social scientist Charles Murray, author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. Murray suggested that unemployment rates among blacks have been high because of laziness and broken values...
...Radcliffe medal will be one of many accomplishments in Cole's long list of honors. She has already received 41 honorary degrees and been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Yale University. The author of two books and mother of five children, Cole's "abridged" curriculum vitae runs to three full pages...
...number of other black women are among past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal, including Marian Wright Edelman, the head of the Children's Defense Fund; singer Jessye Norman and author Alice Walker...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...