Word: casse
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...schools, where many troubled kids are bouncing through foster care, are stunned by the power of the books over their students. "Many of these kids have grown up without parents, but they still have to make moral choices in their lives," notes Ebony Thomas, 25, an English teacher at Cass Tech High School in Detroit. "Before, those choices might have been dictated by church, by family, by community; now you have to face that alone, and the choice lies within yourself. This is a generation that really needs Harry Potter...
...Connor would find the undergraduate program too rigid, she would not be willing to say race simply could not be a factor, as the Court's other four conservative members did. "Justice O'Connor wanted to stay in the basic universe Powell created," said University of Chicago Law Professor Cass Sunstein. Her opinion ensures that Powell's universe, in which race is a factor in admissions but can't be used in a quota or point system, will remain in place. "That precedent (Bakke) has now been codified into law," said Blum...
...charge of the internship program, having published “The (Reluctant, Nervous, Lazy, Broke, Busy, Confused) College Student’s Cookbook” under Rabbit’s Foot Press. He notes the success of many Harvard students in the program, such as Cort K. Cass ’03. Cass spent last summer writing The Redhead’s Handbook, which includes such proud pieces of history as the fact that 20 percent of U.S. presidents have been redheads...
...Eagles added another score in the game’s final moments, when junior defenseman Bill Cass redirected a Brett Peterson shot past Crothers with just...
...skyscrapers, their lights festooning them as artful as a Disneyland castle. ?Stand here and you can see both the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building,? I would say, civic pride mingling with aesthetic awe as we indicated the world?s tallest glamorous building and its downtown elder brother, Cass Gilbert?s neo-Gothic Cathedral of Commerce. Then, sotto voce, I?d add with a dismissive wave, ?And the World Trade Center.? In our glittering family of commercial monuments, the towers were the hulking twins who could aspire to nothing more lofty than playing right and left tackle...