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Back in Boston, Valdivieso, the deferred Morgan Lewis associate, isn't waiting for anyone. The fledgling attorney said he has started looking into opportunities working for a public-interest group that specializes in civil rights. "It's not what I expected, but I'm excited at the chance to do meaningful legal work," he said. "In this economy, things could be a lot worse...
Public boarding schools are hardly a new concept. Institutions in Indiana and Pennsylvania took in the children of dead Civil War veterans, and Louisiana and Illinois offered residential programs for gifted students in the 1980s. But publicly financing boarding schools for inner-city kids is a very different proposition. It was revolutionary in the late 1990s, when two consultants quit their jobs and began raising money to open the SEED School, a charter school in gritty Southeast Washington...
...time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection...
...America that hatches will not be some bizarro world opposite of everything that came just before. History proceeds dialectically. The New Deal era ended, but its basic social and economic underpinnings have endured. Notwithstanding the backlash against the 1960s, the changes born of that decade's sharp left turn - civil rights, feminism, gay rights, environmentalism, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll - became part of the American way of life. In the same way, even as we now rediscover the need for sensible regulation and systemic fairness, the fundamentally good lessons of the Reagan age - entrepreneurialism mostly unbound, proud Americanism - will endure...
Under E.U. rules, all meetings of the 27 members - from the summits of leaders to technical gatherings of civil servants - are chaired by the country holding the reins. The collapse of the Czech coalition means that many of the ministers and officials directing the E.U.'s work could be replaced midway through the country's six-month presidency, which started in January...