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...head being shaven, a skinned rabbit hanging to be eaten, children standing around a murdered corpse. In the slums of a city where 100,000 children live on the streets, former street children talk with bruised toughness of their days sniffing glue. Now, sitting in a classroom, they are told that God will free them from sadness...
...took office July 1, President Lawrence H. Summers has met at least twice with top University deans to discuss major changes to the undergraduate academic program, initiating a review process that could result in an overhaul of the Core Curriculum, concentration requirements and other basic elements of the Harvard classroom experience...
...Lewis stretched out at home by a fire, smoked his pipe and patted his dog on the head. All was quiet on the administrators’ front—there was no need to bother helping students. “Chalk it up to another learning experience outside the classroom,” one administrator was rumored to have said. After thinking hard for a minute, the administrator added, “Fires might be a good way to alleviate the housing shortage—it’s survival of the fittest, where those who can?...
...proof that it promotes women?s rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school?s first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom...
...year-old history instructor, who asked not to be named, studied the subject for just two years. She giggles shyly when asked to cite examples of Afghanistan?s heritage. "We invented the burka, I think," she says, after much thought. Just then, the male principal peers into her classroom. She adjusts her veil modestly. "But, I tell you," she adds, in a whisper, "I don?t think the burka was a very great invention...