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...school board adopts the plan, the next superintendent needs to make sure the schools don’t botch the job. The needs of the displaced students must not be neglected by the new, better-performing schools moving in. That means incoming teachers need to continue offering their old students an excellent education, while at the same time working with new struggling students to help them catch up and integrate into a more rigorous academic environment. Ideally, the district should also find a way to keep the Ola program where it is, so it can continue to serve Cambridge?...
Even so, in the stunned weeks after Sept. 11, there was a powerful impulse to simply rebuild the towers, all 110 stories, to show that Americans could not be brought low by terrorists. Then people remembered that however much we love them in retrospect, the Twin Towers were a botch. At their completion in 1973, they were already anachronisms, products of an imperial Modernism that destroyed human-scale neighborhoods and in their place erected mammoth towers on desolate plazas...
...past year, he has been feeling uncharacteristic pangs of regret about the island's wrecked economy and what it will say about his legacy as a 20th century populist icon. As a result, they say, Castro is finally, genuinely behind the anti-embargo push and doesn't want to botch it. "He knows this is the wave to be on now," says a high-ranking Cuban official...
...past year, he has been feeling uncharacteristic pangs of regret about the island's wrecked economy and what it will say about his legacy as a 20th century populist icon. As a result, they say, Castro is finally, genuinely behind the anti-embargo push and doesn't want to botch it. "He knows this is the wave to be on now," says a high-ranking Cuban official...
...long shot, but what does McVeigh have to lose? If his motion is denied, and he is executed, well, he was already prepared to die; he dropped earlier appeals to hasten the event. If he prevails, he could become a constant, life-sentenced reminder that the FBI managed to botch its biggest case ever. Nothing could please the self-styled enemy of government more than that...