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...NLNS graduates are women or people of color. Graduate Omar Gobourne, an African American who flew helicopters for the Army in the first Gulf War, went on to help launch the E.L. Haynes charter school in Washington. "My military experience," says Gobourne, "taught me to think on my feet." The New York City-based NLNS is still evolving, but early results are encouraging, with test scores up at schools run by NLNS grads. The peripatetic CEO couldn't be more inspired to expand the mission. Schnur and his team visited more than 200 schools this year, and in nearly every...
...rest of us knew she was about to pitch some incredibly off-beat, but incredibly interesting story. Rachel always seemed to know which obscure academic to contact for a story, or what former Crimed could be a potential source. It was she that led me, dragging my insecure feet, to Reverend Gomes’ Memorial Hall office to interview the venerable pundit for my endpaper on Jesus. Liz Maher amazed me in a different way, with her ability to magically turn computer files into film, which then miraculously appeared in my doorbox as FM. She too seemed to have...
...Moonboots”—For our December 2 scrutiny on Style, we knew we had to have a picture of the fad-tastic puffy Moonboots we’d seen adorning feet all over the Yard. However, we must come clean and admit that the “Moonboots” in our magazine were actually not genuine, veritable Moonboot brand, but Veronique’s “Snowboots” she bought in Paris. When...
...former vice president zipped through a succession of slides reviewing the threat of climate change and outlined several possible solutions. In one nightmare scenario, sea level would rise more than 18 feet, submerging large swaths of Florida, New Orleans and Manhattan...
...short-listed Turner Prize works are turbulent and politically engaged. In Lagos-based Yinka Shonibare's Un Ballo in Maschera, elegant dancers in bright 18th century costumes re-enact a historical regicide to a soundtrack of their own shuffling feet. In The House of Osama bin Laden, Brits Langlands & Bell let you wander through a computer simulation of bin Laden's stark, empty Afghanistan home?war has moved elsewhere, so the piece toys with virtual reality's usual role as the background for a shoot...