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...parents are searching for the perfect teacher, teachers are looking for the ideal parent, a partner but not a pest, engaged but not obsessed, with a sense of perspective and patience. And somehow just at the moment when the experts all say the parent-teacher alliance is more important than ever, it is also becoming harder to manage. At a time when competition is rising and resources are strained, when battles over testing and accountability force schools to adjust their priorities, when cell phones and e-mail speed up the information flow and all kinds of private ghosts and public...
...increasing numbers of men pursuing a muscular body which, if not sculpted to Schwarzenegger proportions, would hopefully never land them the title of “girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese to American and European...
...Ideal Date: Dinner and then a hockey game...
...commanding vision or the impulse to usher daily life into new arrangements. Ambitious architects are always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing project...
When the threat was proven to be a figment of the Bush administration’s imagination, the purpose of the enterprise was switched to the pursuit of “freedom.” While normally among the noblest of aims, that glorious ideal has here been turned into little more than a fallback plan for the occupation’s public relations division. This gives us good reason to doubt the sincerity of our government’s commitment to Iraqi freedom...