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...Exemplary School” by the Texas Education Agency every single year. Its students invariably score well above the national average on standardized tests. Youngsters at KIPP Academy New York have likewise consistently outperformed—by a wide margin—the other pupils in their district and city on statewide exams...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: A Commitment to Excellence | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

City officials said the proposed Cambridge Community Charter School would threaten the district’s schools by draining its students, stealing a portion of its funding and failing to allow the district to recover from a messy schools consolidation last year...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Committee Condemns Charter School Proposal | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

Discrimination lawsuits are relatively common across the University, with several filed in federal and district courts each year. Earlier this fall a female librarian at the Design School’s Loeb Library filed suit against the University for gender and racial discrimination...

Author: By Hera A. Abbasi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Worker Suing Harvard Acquitted in Related Case | 11/18/2003 | See Source »

...starting to gravitate around Giampaolo Maffini, chef at the Harbour Grill, tel: (852) 2996 8433?a deceptively bland name for an astonishing restaurant in the mid-range Harbour Plaza Hotel in Hung Hom. Hong Kong's chattering classes might never summon up the will to go to this nondescript district of tower blocks and train lines?more fool them, for Maffini's talent is a rare one. His soups (oyster with Pernod; cauliflower with caviar) are masterful and original; the racks of lamb are so good they defy description; and his duck with Savoy cabbage is simply brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Hot Tables | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Shattered Prayers TURKEY Overlooking the Golden Horn, the Galata district of Istanbul has been a multicultural neighborhood for more than 600 years. Last week the Jewish communities in Galata and nearby Sisli were targeted when simultaneous car-bomb blasts destroyed two synagogues, killing at least 20 people and wounding some 250 others. Ali Ozudogru, who runs a small chandelier business, was one of the first at the scene at the Neve Shalom synagogue. "Arms and legs and bits of flesh were everywhere," he says. "I saw one person totally burnt, with just his eyes moving." A group calling itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

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