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Investigative reporting is Carroll's passion, and with 40 years of experience in newspapers and a nine-year stint on the Pulitzer Prize Board, he has a fine-tuned instinct for spotting prizewinning potential--stories that he calls bell ringers. These, he says, are pieces that require in-depth reporting, have universal resonance and "tell me something I didn't know." His staffs won three Pulitzers while he was editor in Lexington and Baltimore, and since arriving at the Times, Carroll has helped line edit four stories that won Pulitzers--including an expose of unsafe prescription drugs, whose opening paragraphs...
...walls themselves. While 72% of white students graduate from high school on schedule, just over half of black and Hispanic students do. White fourth-graders are more than three times as likely to read proficiently as black fourth-graders. "The WHITE and COLORED signs did come down," says Derrick Bell, New York University law professor and author of Silent Covenants, a book on the unfulfilled hopes of Brown. "But the idea that putting black kids together with whites would solve our problems was naive in the extreme...
Speaking in Bell Hall at the Kennedy School, Nye sat around the table and finished his lunch during the casual question and answer session after the talk...
...vengeful witch all in one. Her performance was dazzling as her Abigail grew more brazen as her success as finger-pointer and actress of the court increased. Thrown to the ground by her supposed lover John Proctor, she only grew stronger and got her revenge, beginning with a devilish bell-like laugh...
...Baccalaureate Sunday is the opening event of Harvard's Class Day Week, attendance by Seniors is practically obligatory. With the first tolling of the bell at Appleton Chapel at 3.30 o'clock tomorrow members of the class, clad in caps and gowns will assemble in from of Holworthy Hall. Shorty before 1 o'clock the class will circle the Yard and enter Appleton Chapel...