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...black make-up. The black father is so paranoid that he sees racism in every little twitch and movement made by whites. Characters attempt to get the black experience by playing dominos and doing spoken word, while their counterparts seek the white experience in knitting and charm school...
...article ended with, “So you told people you were going to Harvard (ambiguous). It’s Harvard (extension), which (disclaimer) by the way is a perfectly great option for education. Whatever.” The Crimson’s patronizing attitude didn’t charm everyone. CSCI E-2, “Bits,” Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68, who also teaches the class for the Core Curriculum, says he was offended by the editorial. “I don’t think that Harvard misrepresents the difference between...
...fact, ripping into schooling is something homeschoolers have done with vigor and eloquence. "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school," wrote the partly home-educated George Bernard Shaw. "It is a prison (where teachers) discourse without charm on subjects they don't understand and don't care about." Shaw's sentiment lives on in Sydney mother Mujahidah Flint, who withdrew two of her daughters from their Muslim school before the older one had finished Year 2. Flint felt the school wasn't honoring Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school...
...homespun southern charm of an overnight media celebrity enthralls the nation through television even as he becomes corrupt, bitter, and political...
...that occurred at Enron. Skilling was there. He was hands-on. It's not the same for Lay." Lay, however, may turn out to be a better witness, says Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. "You're going to see a charm offensive," Berg says. "Jurors give verdicts to people they like. And I think Ken Lay is an incredibly likable...