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...Jean-Baptiste de la Salle school is destined to be at the sharp end of the debate on integration, since it is located in a suburb north of Paris that takes in around 10% of the roughly 140,000 immigrants to France each year. Yet the school has largely achieved the goal, so elusive for France as a whole, of creating harmony from diversity. "Saint-Denis may be the biggest melting pot in the world today, and we reflect that diversity of ethnicities and faith among our students and teachers," says school director Gérard Héloir...
...When it comes to religion, the school practices what it preaches. Though a Catholic establishment, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle gets applications from more and more parents from other backgrounds who want better instruction and discipline than their kids can receive in the disadvantaged area's public schools. Around 50% of students admitted qualify for the financial aid the state offers to students turning to private education. That means that what gets them in is not money or religion, but dedication to study, Héloir notes. Only 27% of its 2,436 students are practicing Catholics, compared...
...months. That's no small boast in an area where unemployment ranges from 25-40%. "You work harder here and the rules are stricter, but that's why you come," explains Axel Blanchard, 15. "All I want is that line on my CV that says, 'Graduated Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.' What that represents can change your entire life...
Americans love self-made men and women. And who was ever more literally self-made than Anna Nicole Smith? Described by acquaintances as a flat-chested teen, she shaped, nipped and tucked herself into a living hood ornament. She styled herself ŕ la Marilyn Monroe and then, after fighting drug problems and ballooning, whittled herself down as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses...
...symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates, like “Mrs. Dalloway,” in a dinner party. Cusk’s heroines are the crème de la crème of suburban homemakers, capable women in their mid to late thirties who expertly stuff chicken breasts for dinner with one hand while keeping order among a host of rowdy toddlers with the other. All this, and yet they unfailingly find time to philosophize about topics ranging from...