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...could only go through the ducts and leap out onstage in a cape?that's my dream." RALPH NADER, U.S. third-party presidential candidate, on his absence from the presidential debates...
...well as promising more services to communities on the edge, Latham expects local people to manage them. He tried that approach when he was mayor of Liverpool, in western Sydney, calling residents' groups "precinct committees"; they quickly ran out of steam. On a national scale, it's a giant leap to think government "can live on the edge of politics" and be radically pragmatic. Is that really what the iconoclast is planning? It's already happening in the suburbs, argues Latham, in schools, child-care centers and sports clubs. Governments should enable outsiders to get on with running things themselves...
...report is a distillation of hundreds of past studies on grade skipping and other forms of acceleration (everything from taking a year of math in a semester to early college entrance). Those who follow education debates know that most school-reform ideas--charter schools, phonics and high-stakes testing leap to mind--are promoted on the strength of highly contested evidence. By contrast, as far back as 1965, Milton Gold said in his book Education of the Intellectually Gifted, "No paradox is more striking than the inconsistency between research findings on acceleration and the failure of society to reduce...
Nevertheless, despite Harvard’s dominance, one game does not provide enough evidence to judge the Crimson’s potential effectiveness against tougher opponents such as Yale and Penn—as tempting as it might be to leap to that conclusion...
...experience of dealing with younger players isn’t entirely foreign. Cultivating minor leaguers for the professional ranks has been his forte since entering the coaching ranks, so picking out the ones with the most promise won’t be too much of a leap...