Word: experimental
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Duncan, 44, has overseen the nation's third-largest school district and its more than 400,000 students for the past seven years. He's considered by most to be a quiet consensus builder. In Chicago, his knack for forging alliances can be seen in his strong relationship with the...
Although hostility to some information (like sex education) is nothing new, we now know how high the real costs of inaction are. When teenage girls were told in a randomized experiment in Kenya that older men are more likely to be HIV-positive than boys, they made better choices and...
The Tribune Company’s decision to file for bankruptcy was only the latest in a series of setbacks for the American newspaper industry. Even before Tribune—which owns the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and its namesake Chicago Tribune—announced its filing, the...
There could be two, three, many opinions and interpretations of this strange and daunting experiment, in part because of its length: 4-1/2hrs., quite possibly the longest movie in the history of U.S. commercial films. (Che opens today in New York City as a single film in two parts...
In the end, the Cuban newspaper was nearly right: it's not the Castro character but the whole of this grand, doomed experiment that lacks "charisma and depth."