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...crumbles under the weight of its own ambition. There is the unmourned death of a work that fails even to reach low expectations. And there is the agonizing tragedy of a work that should succeed—greatness is in its sights—but just cannot close the gap between mediocrity and magnificence.Amitav Ghosh’s new novel, “Sea of Poppies,” certainly has impressive hopes for itself. Perhaps its pure ambition was responsible for the book’s place on the short list for the Man Booker Prize. Ghosh juggles four...
...course, there are bound to be challenges in any effort to bridge the gap between Harvard and La Prusia, Cambridge and Nicaragua...
...Eden, because class inequalities are already at work. According to a 2007 report by the nonprofit Sutton Trust, cognitive test scores of bright 3-year-olds from the poorest British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
...During his second summer in the country, Sheffield experienced institutionalized violence firsthand, when he was beaten by members of the Buenos Aires police force. Having conducted interviews with around 50 junior police officers in Argentina, the Pforzheimer resident and social studies concentrator concluded that an increasing “gap between cops on the street and cops in the office” has put police in states such as Argentina and Brazil out of the reach of governmental control. Although he criticized the systematic violence occurring underthe direction of upper-level police officials, Sheffield acknowledged that most police violence resulted...
...achievement gap surfaces in early childhood and continues throughout high school, college, and adulthood, O’Connor said, citing a statistic that black men are more likely to be in prison at some point during their lives than to graduate from college. O’Connor described affirmative action as a “temporary bandage, rather than a permanent cure” to the racial tensions stemming from unequal representation in positions of power and leadership...