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...Islamic Development Bank, Universal opened its doors in 1990. Since then it has become a fully accredited institution, with 95% of its graduates going on to college. The growing sense of harmony was abruptly reversed on the morning of 9/11. After a frightened parent called the school, a classroom TV was wheeled into vice chairman Zarzour's office, where he watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "As soon as the terrorism speculation started," says Zarzour, "the parents came and took their kids home. The head of the FBI came out from Chicago. The mayor and police chief...
...they leave the building. Freshman Sarah Martini says, "I'm not ready to wear it yet. It has to come from the heart." Girls are separated from boys from sixth grade through tenth grade. As juniors and seniors, they mix again, although the sexes sit separately in the classroom. Casual conversation between girls and boys is discouraged at all times. Cell phones and iPods are banned, but the principal is realistic about it. "If I did a locker check," says Siddiqui, "I know what I'd find. So I don't. Better cell phones than drugs...
Laibson, who has given a guest lecture at Ec 10 for the past three years, suggests that Mankiw consider giving more lectures himself—perhaps moving some of the teaching of the principles of economics out of the section classroom and into Sanders Theatre...
...faculty members poured into the lecture hall, overflowing the room’s 350 seats, Summers met with members of his staff and the docket committee in the basement and took a moment by himself in an empty classroom...
...Kopko, as for many other of the young entrepreneurs, starting a business can help put their classroom economics into practice...