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EDDIE VEDDER writes song for Chicago Cubs, bringing trademark angst to angst-ridden team...
...Obama family. Everyone would be writing about the tragedy of teen pregnancy in the African-American community, the high school dropout rate of teen mothers and so on. Barack Obama's career would be under fire, and no one would be spinning myths to stop it. Catherine D. Nardi, CHICAGO...
...understand Charlotte, you have to understand our ambition," says chamber of commerce head Bob Morgan. "We have a serious chip on our shoulder. We don't want to be No. 2 to anybody." Civic leaders often compare their city to New York, Chicago, and even London. On Sept. 11, 2001, McCrory notes, with a sly grin, that local banks swiftly evacuated their skyscrapers: "Everyone in Charlotte assumed we were next...
...technological innovation.“But K-12 education has had no R&D agency that identifies and researches the most effective innovations in our public schools,” Broad said.Stephen W. Raudenbush ’68, chairman of the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago, which has its own major institute devoted to studying urban education, said there was some truth to Fryer and Broad’s sentiments about the lack of rigorous research in education policy. But he added that recent years have witnessed major research breakthroughs.“Understanding what works...
...number of Harvard professors have signed on to a letter—authored by Paola Sapienza at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and Luigi Zingales at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business—which calls on congressional officials to take more time in considering the provisions of the bailout and expresses concerns about the plan’s fairness, ambiguity, and long-term effects...