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...champion of universal first-class elementary education chimes in. Horace Mann, architect of American public schooling, ponders the debate over private education, charter schools, and educational reform. He tells the two graduates that today’s youth must have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach for America, the waiter takes his order, pragmatism. Franklin’s eyes consider a second entr?...
...when plans to build the Loeb got underway, it seemed that the Harvard theater scene would finally get exactly what it had been missing: a theater. The Loeb, designed by Hugh Stubbins, was to be a state of the art facility, technologically advanced and innovatively designed. The flexible main stage allowed for three different set-ups, an Elizabethan theater, a proscenium and a theater in the round. The experimental theater next door was exciting in its originality...
...same time, the school was on the lookout for an architect to build the Design Center. Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, suggested Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect...
...shacks built on private Palestinian land - than the settlers were back with renewed zeal, along with nails and concrete to rebuild their smashed homes. As one settler, Ariyeh Davis, told the Israeli Internet news agency Ynet, "Our answer is 'expansion against expulsion.' " He added, "God willing, we'll build new places, and from 300,000 residents in Judea and Samaria, we'll become 600,000." (See TIME's photo-essay "The Vatican and the Jews...
...Israelis want Washington to permit the "natural growth" of the settlements - i.e., allow the children of existing settlers to build new homes - which U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she opposes. The Israelis also argue that while sacrifices are being asked of them, little is being demanded of the Palestinians. Abbas, who, according to aides, came away from Washington convinced of "Obama's seriousness" in pushing Israel to remove settlements, says he refuses to hold peace talks with Netanyahu until the Israeli Premier publicly backs the two-state solution, something he has been loathe...