Word: inners
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This coming May, a very special group of seventh-graders from Texas will be visiting Harvard. Conventional wisdom has deemed that students like them—underprivileged African-American and Hispanic children from the inner city—cannot succeed in public schools. Forgive them if they find such generalizations to be offensive and wholly untrue. Indeed, our educational establishment would do well to note the accomplishments of schools such as their academy in Houston, a founding member of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP...
Your base is an inner-city rooftop, where you monitor citizens through binoculars, identifying targets for persuasion--or eradication. The degree of detail--in buildings and personnel--is stunning. Are you playing a game or watching a psychological spy thriller? At times, it's hard to tell...
Mousavizadeh, whose relatively long term of service made him “one of the youngest people in the [inner] circle by 25 years,” emphasized that loyalty in his line of work is crucial to affecting the decisions being made...
...said flames probably climbed through a pipe chase—the area between the inner and outer wall where heating and water pipes go from floor to floor—to the upper floors...
After immersing myself in the scary and confusing inner worlds of the men and women who make up the Bush administration, their general out-of-touchness started to make sense. For instance, when Ridge was asked how he felt about being mocked by political satirists, he declared that “when political cartoonists, singing groups or comedians talk about duct tape, it is a humorous reminder for all Americans to take a look at our web site (www.ready.gov) to review our emergency preparedness recommendations and kit suggestions.” Some people might ask how on Earth he could...