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...himself a huge challenge. What he did for Christianity in Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, Brown is now trying to do for America: reclaim its richness, its darkness, its weirdness. It's probably a quixotic effort, but it is nevertheless touchingly valiant. We're not just overweight tourists in T-shirts and fanny packs, he says. Our history is as sick and weird as anybody's! There's signal in the noise, order in the chaos! It just takes a degree from a nonexistent Harvard department...
...scholars, journalists, businesspeople and even senior officials crossing the Strait in both directions have enabled China to better understand what makes Taiwan tick. Now Beijing's strategy is more nuanced. That's partly tactical: the hard-line approach was driving people to the DPP. But it's also an effort to win Taiwan hearts and minds and to show that China, too, is more complex than a caricature of a totalitarian state...
...schools, paying students for good grades, experimenting with teacher merit pay and shutting down failing schools and reopening them with new staffs. He's still keen on such controversial turnaround strategies. In late August, he announced another competitive grant program that uses $3.5 billion in nondiscretionary funding in an effort to fix the nation's worst schools...
...return in the spring.”WOMEN’S ANTONIA SCHUMAN TROPHYCompeting in its home waters on the Charles River, the Crimson women’s squad captured fourth place in both the A and B division of racing this weekend, leading to a fourth-place team effort overall.In the A division, second-year skipper Emily Lambert, along with sophomore crew Alexandra Jumper, placed in the top five of the 12-school field 12 times, placing in the top three on eight occasions and winning four of the 24 division races on the weekend...
...first few weeks of school. “It’s a good first step,” said Ingrid G. Akerlind ’10 of the fair. “It’s definitely more personal than e-recruiting.” The ongoing effort to diversify the fair has been aided in recent years by the absence of major banks like Goldman Sachs, and the now defunct Lehman Brothers. A sea of bodies, clad in dress-for-success garb navigated the five industry “neighborhoods,” including representatives from...