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...freestyle rap battles (live improvisation contests) on Black Entertainment Television. That led to his becoming the first solo Asian-American rapper signed by a major label (Ruff Ryders). His debut album, The Rest is History, featured big names like Kanye West and Wyclef Jean, and included the taunting single Learn Chinese ("When the pumps go off/ y'all gon' speak Chinese") plus serious tracks that delved into the Tiananmen killings and migrant life ("Think we open restaurants 'cause we cook good...
...only make the field more compelling for qualified college graduates but would also help to mitigate attrition rates due to teacher burn-out. More resources for schools—which currently can be purchased at the principals’ discretion with bonus money—would also help students learn more effectively. While there is no quick fix to the education industry’s current crisis, radical and new solutions must be sought. Employing parallel tracks of individual and school merit pay in the short term is one such means of ensuring that schools fulfill their ultimate goal...
...taking “Justice,” agreed with Sandel’s assessment and praised the large enrollment. “The class is like a huge forum,“ he said. “It’s great to learn from the 900 people around you.” But not everyone is enthusiastic about big classes. Government 20; “Introduction to Comparative Politics,” which had already doubled in size last year, surged again this fall from 270 to 336. Its teacher, government professor Steven R. Levitsky had to change...
...laughs are plentiful, but the comedy, as usual in Ayckbourn, is tinged with pathos and pain. The bluff, insensitive Teddy barrels over the women in his life like a speeding London taxi. Giles (Michael Siberry), the sweetly clueless next-door neighbor, is the last to learn of his wife's affair and the first, pathetically, to forgive her. Ayckbourn has made a specialty of portraying people who are too dull-witted, or self-absorbed, or obsessed with social niceties, to comprehend the wreckage around them. The boozing French actress (Zabou Breitman), after a fling with Teddy, lets loose a torrential...
...course in the midst of a world class array of liberal arts classes, my quibble is not with the students who are taking accounting. In fact, I find much to admire in their pioneer spirit—they are willing to spend a little extra energy in order to learn about something in which they are interested...