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...private education, charter schools, and educational reform. He tells the two graduates that today’s youth must have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach for America, the waiter takes his order, pragmatism. Franklin’s eyes consider a second entrée, but just then the professional voice of Dr. Osler comments upon Benjamin’s expanding girth...
...aspects of a space colony. One of its most immediately puzzling aspects was political. I remembered reading what Naomi Klein had written in January 2000 about the American left: that it apparently “seemed surprised to learn that, contrary to previous reports, it did, in fact, still exist.” Although news reports tried to convince me that Republicans were in power, I saw very little Republican presence on campus, and didn’t know any personally. Although I would meet a few eventually, the political uniformity reinforced my notion of Harvard as a somewhat sheltered...
...daunting 21st century challenges: find a way to take care of your middle class and poor, and let the rich top up care as they see fit. As Rua puts it: "The [French] system ensures quality treatment for everyone, but it isn't there to eliminate the realities that exist in every country - and in every professional and economic sector - that give the more affluent a wider variety of choices, and the ability to seek élite care." With reporting by Bruce Crumley / Paris and Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin...
...first year that the U.S. was allowed to host a trade and cultural fair in the Russian capital. However, the fact that the way in which the countries chose their delegation participants differed suggested that political tension and strong feelings of ideological superiority hadn’t ceased to exist. While American delegates were chosen on the basis of academic merit, the Soviet delegates were chosen largely on the basis of their allegiance to the USSR and ability to champion Soviet political ideals, according to former Davis Center for Eurasian Studies Associate Director Professor Marshall I. Goldman...
...honestly a bit shocked to hear some of the connections that were being said to [exist] between her and anything causing anyone harm,” he said. “Because, I don’t know, she’s always been sort of very ladylike, very conscientious, very sweet, and she always thought of others...