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...face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application process—another high wall that blocked their escape route in education.I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these students, as it seems unlikely that Kaplan will open a branch in Ramallah anytime soon. While I expect that...
...Harvards, the Stanfords—they’re still going to be the ones people want to go to and envision as the end-all-to-be-all,” Conroy said. “Many students think that if you go to a Holy Grail school, you pave your way to a fabulous life. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it doesn?...
...guardsmen, cordon off a long hallway. The site is reminiscent of a military checkpoint, but the eager consumers seeking entrance are there for a less sinister reason. They're stocking up on basic food supplies such as rice, black beans, and what has, in recent months, become the Holy Grail of edibles: powdered milk...
...problem for radio when it comes to counting people is getting numbers that actually matter. PPMs may provide an accurate description of what a listener’s exposure to various radio stations are, but it’s attention and not exposure that’s the holy grail for stations. Thom Mocarsky, vice president of communications at Arbitron, has even stated in Media Life Magazine that “Neither the diary nor the PPM measures attentiveness.” In fact, PPM data has only reinforced how little we pay attention to the radio. Philadelphia saw nearly...
...conjured this colorful ensemble and blended music with action to create a satisfying, if somewhat uneven, experience of theater from another epoch.Love is indeed the driving force behind this unusual, three-centuries-old interpretation of the King Arthur legend. There are no heroic quests for the Holy Grail, only a very human Arthur (Adam Friedman) who reluctantly leaves his bride, blind Princess Emmeline (Victoria J. Crutchfield ’09), to fight against the Saxons. He then overcomes various challenges to recover her when she is kidnapped by his archenemy, Oswald, King of Kent (Kerian E. Robertson...