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These days the bench is mostly empty. Of his dozen friends, Shawn says just one or two are still at Shelbyville High. If some cliques are defined by a common sport or a shared obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Shawn's friends ended up being defined by their mutual destiny: nearly all of them became high school dropouts...
...president of the Harvard Darfur Action Group.Later that evening, STAND’s national executive committee was elected. The members will coordinate communication between STAND’s more than 200 chapters and develop a national strategy for lobbying Congress.The conference launched the Genocide-Intervention Network (GI Network), which was started by a student at Swarthmore as a way to connect students from around the country.In coordination with the Save Darfur Coalition and the GI Network, STAND introduced the “Power to Protect” campaign. From January through April, they hope to collect one million letters...
...February 1945, Shapiro, then an American GI, entered the Berga concentration camp outside of Weimar, Germany. But unlike the thousands of U.S. soldiers who marched into Hitler’s death camps later that spring, Shapiro came not as a liberator—but as a captive...
What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he?...
...imagination and political derring-do. For example, it is hypocritical for Democratic politicians, many of whom had the good fortune of attending private schools, to deny that same opportunity to inner-city youths by dogmatically opposing vouchers. That opposition is at odds with the legacy of the GI Bill and other Democratic efforts to achieve equality in educational opportunities. At the same time, we need to bring America’s investment in preschool and health care for all children into line with those of Canada and Europe. The Democratic Leadership Council’s fears of being labeled liberal...