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...POINT DURING THE DEFENSE summation in the U.S. District Court wire-fraud proceedings against boxing promoter Don King, his premier fighter, the convicted rapist Mike Tyson, could be seen dozing off on a bench in the back of the New York City courtroom, holding a book of essays by Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art? At the time, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment seemed a better choice: the prosecution had called 18 witnesses to back up its claim that King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London for a canceled fight in 1991, and the defense...
Both R. Alan Leo's reference to a "minority student center" and Dean Epps' description of the movement as a "Third World center promoting racial separation" misunderstand the basic principle upon which this movement was founded. From its inception the MSA's effort has included organizations from all races...
...would like to also point out some factual errors in R. Alan Leo's article. First, the MSA currently does not have office space of any kind. Like many ethnic and cultural organizations at Harvard, the MSA has no formally assigned university space...
There is no doubt that school reform is necessary, but EAI's brand of change makes some educators and parents explode with words like "imbeciles" and "swindlers." "They talk the talk in terms of education, but their delivery is always short," says Leo Canty, executive vice president of the Connecticut State Federation of Teachers. "EAI has come in and done so many things that have divided the community." In particular, educators express frustration with the cutbacks in special education--which the U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating at EAI schools in Baltimore--and with EAI's teaching program, called...
...typical day in Leo Damrosch's English 10a or 10b class can include his singing songs, reciting poetry and doing impressions of characters' voices. But he wasn't always so sensational in his lectures...