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...before up there. I feel like ‘Oh my God. I’m at Harvard working my ass off pulling all-nighters.’”HOMESCHOOLERS AND THE NEXT FRONTIERWhile Norberg’s unconventional upbringing presented hardships in the classroom, it helped foster the individuality that friends say defines him. His friends say the true “Stephen Norberg” is the person writing his final exam essay in crayon or doing the butterfly in a speedo in three feet of snow, they say. They estimate 60 percent of his college...
...Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo...
...While Pakistan and Afghanistan trade barbs over who is most responsible for the Taliban surge, it is clear is that without significant changes in both countries the region risks collapsing into another cauldron of violence like the one that helped foster al-Qaeda. "This is the main battle in the war on terrorism," says Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's former Foreign minister. "Al-Qaeda lost its capital in Afghanistan, and they are creating a perception that they are getting it back. It is crucial for the U.S., for Afghanistan, for Pakistan and for the whole world that we prevent this from...
...name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie Foster to Jamie Lee Curtis, have written children’s books. Not all approve of these celebrity compositions. The MotherReader blog argues for the creation of a new organization called BACA—Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors—pointing out that for every book deal with a celebrity, there?...
...just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes of inquiry or help one vote and balance a checkbook...