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...classrooms in 2002 after a parent complained that the passages on the Vietnam war were too liberal. "I try very, very hard to be fair," says Hakim, "and I feel a responsibility not to present my bias." But, she says, opposing viewpoints and complex ideas belong in books for middle-schoolers. "Their minds are much more flexible than adults'," she says. Hakim, who now lives in a Denver suburb, is writing the third book in her science series, in which she will introduce Einstein and the principles of quantum physics. --By Sora Song
Stand-up comics, of course, do one-person shows every night, in clubs and concert halls, so it's no surprise that they would eventually make an assault on Broadway. The bigger question is whether they belong there. Cantone, a New York City comic and actor perhaps best known for his recurring role as Charlotte's wedding planner in Sex and the City, is a talented, high-voltage performer with a bag of good impressions (Julia Child, Sammy Davis Jr.) and a bitchy, high-camp sensibility. But despite some second-act musings about his family, including his mother's death...
...Don’t fuck the hired help, because if you do, you will most likely get caught in headlights. And when you do, the headlights will most likely belong to your boyfriend’s car. Sucka...
...policies to make special efforts to hire more women and minority faculty members, and the importance of doing so is taken for granted. The idea of creating “diversity” is now largely accepted as a legitimate justification for making special efforts to hire professors who belong to underrepresented groups when those groups are defined by race and gender. But if the purpose of diversity is, as its proponents claim, to improve education by bringing more varied perspectives and ideas to intellectual debate, then political and ideological diversity should be just as important, if not more...
...beehouse without honey," says Akbar Panjalizadeh, 61, a retired high school teacher. He owns a hostel for backpackers, where a tourist - a British motorcyclist - perished in the quake. Nonetheless, Panjalizadeh is busy rebuilding the guesthouse, sure that Bam will return to its former glory. "The Citadel didn't belong just to Bam, or Iran, it belonged to the world," he says. "They will rebuild it." But for now, much of the action in this city takes place in the cemetery. In the extended section, disorderly rows of graves all bear the same "sunset" date - 5 Dey, 1382, the Iranian calendar...