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...addition to the sweatshirt, Latifah also received a plaque to commemorate her artistic and humanitarian achievements over the past year. These include her Academy Award-nominated performance in Chicago, as well as her continuing participation in the Lancelot H. Owens Scholarship Foundation, a program she started to provide inner-city students with access to college education...
That such environments deter student achievement is evident. Take Jared M. Fleisher ’05, who attended an inner-city school in Los Angeles with shoddy facilities and under-prepared teachers. “The resources made it such that everybody was apathetic,” he said. “[The problem was] the physical environment of the school itself. It wasn’t an environment that anybody wanted to be in.” Just as the problem in Fleisher’s school does not stem from the inadequate testing or poor curriculum, neither...
...Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian spy. You might as well admit...
...kind of hard-to-pigeonhole folks you find in life--or on reality TV. On Survivor and The Amazing Race, the gay men don't drop Judy Garland references in every scene. MTV's Making the Band 2--a kind of hip-hop American Idol--gave center stage to inner-city kids who would be portrayed as perps or victims on a cop drama...
...coup by Saddam's generals. "This way, he'd get what he deserved," a senior Pentagon official says. "More important, he'd get it at the hands of his own people." The U.S. tried to encourage a putsch by sending e-mails to members of Saddam's inner circle, including military officers. The regime responded by blocking the Iraq server so that no one could receive any messages. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced his future press conferences will be beamed into Iraq by Commando Solo, a modified cargo plane now operating along Iraq's borders...