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...American public education. If these districts don’t shape up, their schools could face anything from state interference in their administrative policies to a state takeover. Massachusetts’s performance was fairly standard. Iowa, California and Alabama—states rarely mentioned in the same breath when it comes to education policy—all fell in the same general territory as the Bay State...
...night, the Square boasts all kinds of carnival attractions in this last breath of summer, when the air is still warm and we can walk without coats. The ice cream shops close around midnight, with throngs of Harvard students milling about the thresholds until even later. The crowds of first-years are especially self-evident. Pass under the garish glow of the streetlamps outside ABP, cross Dunster Street, and suddenly one strain of music fades while another emerges. English is drowned out by a plethora of other languages...
...could quickly bog down some of the policy prescriptions in the book, like loan guarantees for the development of new energy-saving technologies. But in a sensible presidential election, the recommendations of Winning the Oil Endgame would be discussed and debated from now through November. Don't hold your breath...
...about one case out of 1,000, according to Dr. Richard Stein, associate chairman of medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, there are complications--including, in rare cases, strokes. For patients who have never had any symptoms (such as the chest pains and shortness of breath that Clinton experienced) and whose stress tests are normal, the risks outweigh the benefits, says Stein...
...deliver a new hit, then who can? The industry was certainly banking on Woman to be a winner. The production is budgeted at $6.8 million, and you see at once where much of the money went: the sets. Director Trevor Nunn (Cats, Sunset Boulevard) and designer William Dudley (The Breath of Life, The Coast of Utopia) use ultrasophisticated animated projections on three white semicircular screens. They create a cinematic labyrinth, where the screens spin and whirl, with intricate backdrops that cross-cut, dissolve and move with the characters. When a character is required to climb the stairs to the attic...