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...Barking Crab, located on the waterfront near the Financial District, does the East Coast justice. After summers of soggy fries and rubbery fried clams, it was refreshing to eat at a place where the food was as pleasant as the atmosphere. The restaurant is a minor trek from the South Station T-stop, located directly on the water. During the warmer months, limited boat docking is available for customers...
...back to work in Baghdad, but all was not quiet there or in other cities. Those police officers were all products of the old regime, and many Iraqis were reluctant to accept them as arbiters of the new. In Kirkuk, says Ahmad Shakir, an Arab teacher from the Qadissiya district, Kurdish children with rocket-propelled grenades were going from house to house in his neighborhood, telling Arabs to move out in two days or die. "I went to the Americans to ask for help," he says. "They said it was not their responsibility; go to the civilian administration. I came...
...American civilians--including diplomats, engineers and businessmen held as hostages or human shields--and their relatives were able to collect more than $120 million two weeks ago. But Acree and his fellow POWs, along with an additional 200 former hostages and human shields whose cases are pending in U.S. District Court, may be out of luck...
...including those launched by urban educational leaders such as Deborah Meier, Hubert Dyasi and Lecturer on Education Theodore Sizer. It requires schools in which decisions about philosophy, pedagogy and curriculum are made by teachers, parents, students, and administrators within the school, working under broad guidelines established by the district and state. It requires schools in which the primary pedagogy is a Socratic partnership between teachers and learners. It requires schools in which assessment is truly comprehensive—what the MCAS was supposed to be—and involves students generating products individually and cooperatively that others, including the public...
Pring-Wilson was born to former Colorado Springs District Attorney Cynthia M. Pring and attorney Ross A. Wilson, and lived on a ranch with both until...