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...weighing 203 carats. Also in attendance: protesters from Survival International, a charity that has dogged the De Beers Group for allegedly helping push the bushmen of Botswana off their land. De Beers LV, the retail joint venture with LVMH, is operated independently of the parent company but has still drawn the ire of human-rights activists. Undaunted by such controversy, De Beers LV CEO Guy Leymarie says, "Our business here is to seduce the consumer with a mythic name...
...Although," she adds, "undeniably, morals are drawn." But she doesn't make it easy. In Goblet, the good-hearted Cedric Diggory dies for no reason. In Phoenix, we learn that Harry's dad, whom he idealized, had been an arrogant bully. People aren't good and bad by nature; they change and transform and struggle. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Granted, we know Harry will not succumb to anger and evil. But we never stop feeling that he could. (Interestingly, although Rowling is a member...
President Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative has drawn opposition from both educators and politicians. But a report last week had some good news: math and reading scores for grade-school students have gone up. Margaret Spellings, 47, who took over as Education Secretary in January, spoke with TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about testing, her own kids and the Harry Potter phenomenon...
...Drawn from their Annenberg Italian-style “festive meal” by loud music coming from the usually tranquil home of math review sessions, others flocked spontaneously to Loker during the hour-long set on Wednesday...
...question investigates what happens when families choose a residence partly because of the public schools associated with it. The Crimson reports Rothstein’s claim that when he uses alternative measures an area’s number of streams, my results change substantially (when school districts were originally drawn, it was common to align their boundaries with natural barriers like streams. Thus, areas with more streams tend to have more school districts, and this makes for a “natural experiment” in which some families have more districts to choose among than others). Rothstein?...