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...many “doubles,” and “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” an imagining of the terrorist mastermind’s final hours. Perhaps more than the non-fiction, the stories illustrate the author’s sociopathic lack of empathy. In “Last Days,” for instance, Atta is constipated. Because Atta was actually constipated in the days and hours before steering American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center? No. Because Amis wanted to make a point. In the story...
...least one scholar in the field, Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other research, and confidence that he can understand the core of all problems better than anyone else because he understands the magic of the market and the equations economists use to describe it,” said Orfield, a renowned expert on civil rights and education...
...hard to imagine how the lessons that work in schools in which each class has no more than 100 students could be applied in a large, urban school that has over 400 students in each grade. But, as tends to be the case with large social problems that lack easy answers, it is asking the right questions that helps us progress, and Wagner’s book raises many important questions about both the state and purpose of secondary education in America. As Wagner states in his conclusion, “However you choose to start the conversation, it will...
...something we focus on all season,” Rhodes said. “Building and leading up to the Ivy League is our focus.” In last year’s season-ending meeting, the Crimson felt an all-too-familiar thorn in its side: a lack of offensive production. As junior goalkeeper Lauren Mann enters her third year as the cream of the league crop in net, the team’s struggles for goals and wins have gone hand-in-hand. The signs in the offseason and early going in 2008 all point to upward...
...archives, but has no plans to move the current location of Club Passim on Palmer Street. The club’s cultural role in the community continues with the creation of the Passim School of Music and its Culture for Kids program, which seeks to make up for the lack of arts education in public schools. Passim hopes to create a traveling archive that will allow students to listen to recordings of legendary musicians, while also learning about culture in the ’60s and ’70s. Passim also continues to strengthen its ties to Harvard students...