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...Harvard hockey jersey and a crimson Veritas flag cover the faded walls of Marc A. Parris’ ’06 ninth-grade classroom at Community Charter School of Cambridge...
...assistant teacher in an 11th grade humanities class at Community Charter School, said that she had to reconsider some of her academic plans to participate in the program...
...when Sotheby's auctions off what it calls "the birth certificate of freedom": the Magna Carta (above), one of 17originals that still exist and the only one in private hands. Signed by England's King John at Runnymede in 1215 to appease his rebellious barons, the charter was revised over the years until the 1297 version became the foundation of English liberties. When Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to buy one privately in 1984 for $1.5 million, he lent it to the National Archives so it could lie beside its democratic descendants, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution...
...course, Governor Romney is the best model for a President Romney. His record should stroke conservatives’ feathers: He left a state once $3 billion in debt with a $1 billion surplus (without raising taxes), deputized state police to enforce federal immigration laws, increased the number of charter schools, and vetoed a bill authorizing the cloning of human embryos...
...that Harvard is letting in the wrong people, or that “undergraduate life at the College today is not giving due encouragement to civic courage and political engagement,” as our ornery alumni suggest. Though they’ve asked Faust to charter a task force with a name so long and grammatically complex that it cannot possibly be anything but a good idea, no amount of administrative prodding will wake us up to the fact that, as they claim, “the US is engaged in an occupation abroad...while at the same time...