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...years since he created the emergency care system, Hirschman says the infrastructure has developed in ways he hadn’t anticipated, with a heavier emphasis on training than in the past...
...more closely districts look, the less transparent the diagnoses. Beginning last year, Texas' Austin Independent School District began requiring principals to track discipline data by race to discern if any specific teachers were using a heavier hand with black students. The answer was yes, but the reasons were far from straightforward. Cornel Jones, principal of Austin's Oak Springs Elementary School, does not blame racism but chalks the problem up to "cultural misunderstandings" between his white teachers and the 97%-minority student body. One insidious source of confusion: When a teacher scolds a black or Latino student for a simple...
...rock star. He's not. He's an emo star. Emo--short for emotional--has been around since the mid-'80s but is only now developing into a broad cultural phenomenon. Major labels are scurrying to land emo talent, just as they once pillaged Seattle for grunge. Emo is heavier music for heavier times, and it's starting to sell too. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Carrabba has moved 175,000 copies of his album The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most--a phenomenal number for an independent release--and in April MTV taped a Dashboard Confessional Unplugged...
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Senior Chaney Sheffield is a good four inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than the Crimson’s description of Wingate, who played back when Babe Ruth had yet to don a Red Sox uniform, let alone get dealt to the Yankees. Sheffield’s resemblance to Wingate in the mind’s eye of a local Boston journalist—along with a timely milestone in Boston sports history—combined to alter Sheffield’s role on the Harvard baseball team and give the Crimson a much-needed boost at the plate...