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...bittersweet consolation of outgrowing your favorite children’s books is the chance to revisit them as adults with keener eyes. One of my own pet series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...
Hollywood, currently nursing a weapons-grade crush on Africa, has also turned its klieg lights on the plight of its children. Perhaps you heard about a couple of celebrities adopting kids from there? Fascination with the continent's woes dates back to Bob Geldof's famine-relief concerts in the mid-'80s. Bono picked up the baton in the '90s, and now every African nation seems to have its own celebrity benefactor. George Clooney has made the situation in Darfur one of his key talking points. Madonna is building an orphan center in Malawi. Brad Pitt helped produce and Nicole...
While checking final grades may be stressful enough, Harvard Law School students were forced to endure additional hours of anxiety due a system error with the Law School’s grade viewing portal. As hundreds of law students logged on last week to check their grade reports, they had to wait several hours before accessing their final marks, resulting in “inevitable frustration,” according to an e-mail released by the Law School registrar’s office. MyGrades, the Law School’s online grade viewing system, uses a waiting list...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
...rooms faced walls or the backs of houses." Simon's father Irving, like the father in the trilogy, worked in the garment industry. Recalls Simon: "Like Willy Loman, he learned to ingratiate himself with his customers. He wasn't a particularly bright man and had only a grade-school education. I remember him as being a great laugher, a great audience...