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...same percentage as Dartmouth and other schools. Indeed, Harvard has only recently begun actively encouraging students to step outside Johnston gate and generally only encourages time off before one’s freshman year. Luckily, the Office of International Programs has been expanding its resources (the $100 million gift from David Rockefeller ’36 has been a great help), and now even has a special link on its website with resources for those interested in gap years. This expansion reflects a huge shift in dogma from years past, when the prevailing view of study abroad...
...million in federal money. No one does that, except extremely conservative Southern governors (who inevitably relent and take the money) - oh, and occasionally teachers' unions. A few years ago, I wrote here about the Detroit union that forced the local government to reject a $200 million philanthropic gift to build 15 charter schools using a model that was already succeeding in the city. And now we have New York's United Federation of Teachers (UFT), a storied crew, thwarting the state's attempt to file an application that might have won $700 million in Race to the Top education funds...
...enough. The president can pay for his own walk—a walk that will lead from the White House all the way back to Chicago in 2012. Congress can tremble knowing the “audacity of hope” might indeed be God’s greatest gift to us, but the greatest gift the founders gave us was the right to vote. And in 2010, we are taking our country back...
...teacher and the Black Muslim icon Malcolm X. He's played soldiers, policemen, coaches, doctors. He's spoken the words of Shakespeare and Spike Lee. Even as a killer, in American Gangster, he carried himself like a cool chief executive, the mayor of the Harlem underworld. He has the gift of making melodrama seem plausible just because he's doing it. And always in Denzel Washington's screen demeanor is the sense of power withheld, of anger internalized. He doesn't shout or strut, doesn't need to. Why raise your voice when a good stare from that handsome, solemn...
...Internet restrictions, opponents say, are yet another attempt by Berlusconi's party to protect Mediaset's bottom line in the age of online video sharing. "This decree is an enormous gift to Mediaset," says Paolo Gentiloni, a former Communications Minister who is now the opposition's point man on media policy. "We suspect that this maneuver is aimed at slowing the growth of the web's video offerings by a government that has a personal interest in supporting private TV." Dario Denni, head of the Italian Association of Internet Providers, used this analogy to describe the new rule...