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...chapter on relationships opens with a story about a woman who talks about how she's always been on the perfectionistic side and it wasn't an issue. She started dating her husband and things were okay and they got married, and she'd sort of nudge him about leaving the bathroom mat on the floor after a shower. But it wasn't until they had kids that it really got bad and she would project all her issues on him. Twice a year she travels for business and before she leaves she types out these long instructions...
...measure the reign of a religious leader not by sermons or doctrinal documents, but by signs, that moment in Poland is arguably the most significant chapter of this three-year-old papacy. A German pontiff, 60 years later, crosses paths with a rainbow on the grounds of Auschwitz, a word from the sky for that which we have no words...
...white and black students, with 4 percent of black and 34 percent of white students scoring advanced. There was a 37 percent difference on the mathematics advanced scores, with 22 percent of black and 59 percent of white students achieving this score. A report prepared by the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP criticized leaders of the system for having expectations that are “not high enough” for children. It is these low expectations, the report says, that explain why more black students in other districts—including Milton, Stoughton, and Waltham—scored proficient...
Twenty-four juniors were elected earlier this month into the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest undergraduate honors society in the country. This year, 12 of the “Junior 24” are male and 12 are female, and more than half of the winners in natural sciences are women. “For the first time, I think, the women have achieved equality and some of those women were also in the natural sciences,” said James F. Coakley ’68, the secretary of Harvard’s chapter, Alpha Iota...
...while “Literary Men” is a fascinating collection of ideas and insights, it does not satisfy as a novel. It is not that Gessen does not care for his characters or eschews the details of his fictional world (which, as the pictures of the first chapter attest, is not all that fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch...