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Xzibit, host of MTV's Pimp My Ride Bridget Marquardt, one-third of Hugh Hefner's girlfriend and star of E!'s The Girls Next Door...
...process by which Jones became dean of admissions at M.I.T. looks from afar, at least, like American meritocracy working the way it is supposed to work. Once she was in the door and proving her competence, nobody gave a hoot about her résumé, which is why her fabrication was not caught for 28 years. What ultimately did Jones in was a different kind of meritocracy, the kind that trades in what might be called paper merit. Degrees, test scores, recommendation letters: these are all artificial substitutes for real merit. Sometimes the artificial substitute is unavoidable. When many thousands...
...easy to spot what's going right at South Brooklyn Community High, the transfer school that Garcia attends. It's obvious the minute the doors open. Waiting in the bright, airy reception area are six advocate-counselors, or ACs. Each counsels 25 or so kids, whom they greet individually, often with elaborate, personalized handshakes or fist pounds. These close relationships are cemented by daily meetings and twice-weekly group sessions. When any of the school's 150 students fail to show up in the morning, the AC makes a phone call to find out why. Freddie Perez, 17, compares this...
...more of Florida's black vote (almost 20%) than any other Republican gubernatorial candidate in recent history. So far the Crist approach is working: his approval rating is at 73%. That's one more reason the presidential candidates from both parties will soon be showing up at Crist's door, where they will find a new power broker both parties can talk...
Last week marked another sad milestone in the history of Harvard Square, as yet another independently owned business shuttered its doors. The latest casualty is the Greenhouse Restaurant and Coffee Shop, which has stood at the nexus of Harvard square for 30 years. The Greenhouse’s closing is but the latest reminder of the trend of locally owned businesses shutting down, and being supplanted by private chains—the most recent examples being Qdoba and the International House of Pancakes. While many have expressed concerns that Harvard Square is losing its tradition of supporting locally owned establishments...