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People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. "Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore," he says. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
Gates, Henry Louis • arrest of for breaking into own house while being black • Obama says "the Cambridge police acted stupidly" by arresting, and when they voice their hurt feelings, he doesn't offer a knee-jerk apology like almost every politician does whenever anyone objects to almost anything, but instead says he's "surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement because I think it was a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home...
...little-touristed, uptown section of Bermuda's capital, Hamilton (the neighborhood may look a little sketchy, but Bermuda is known for its safety), try the jerk chicken, coconut fish and banana dumplings at Jamaican Grill (32 Court Street; 441-296-6577). And don't leave the isles without stopping by the 1930s-era Swizzle Inn in Warwick for its Dark 'n' Stormy, a local concoction of Bermuda rum and ginger beer...
Jackson, Michael • brainlessness of • columnists Bob Herbert and Gail Collins weigh in on • crowd at Staples Center memorial service for is astonished by resurrection of ... oh, never mind, that was just that insufferable jerk Corey Feldman dressed up like...
...years. While participants in programs such as AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, the military and other such institutions have long been eligible for loan reduction or forgiveness, this new program expands such mercy to potentially hundreds of thousands more students who won't be forced to make that knee-jerk decision between ideals and salary. "We really need college graduates to go into fields like teaching and social work and public-interest law and rural medical services," says Irons. "And because of the way people are forced to pay for education, they are less and less able to do those jobs...