Word: mads
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It’s hard to be mad at Teach for America (TFA). The program has done so much over the past 15 years to draw attention to the inexcusable inequalities that exist in our public schools. It’s led so many of the brightest students in the nation to seriously consider teaching as a post-college option—eight percent of us here at the College applied last year, and numbers will probably continue to rise.Yet, for a program bringing top minds into the education world, TFA is sending some very dangerous messages about the teaching...
...this clip, and most likely they just watched that classic “Rowdy” Roddy Piper flick, “They Live.” Our hero wanders around the City of Angels, while the background keeps folding in on itself to reveal scary messages, a la MAD magazine’s infamous fold-in back pages. A pharmaceuticals display collapses, reading “Side Effects: Death...
...clothes a bunch of d-bags wear, what happens when you drive around a lot, or which 15 random seniors are more “interesting” than you, the FM staff dispatches one of its star investigative reporters to get in New Yorker mode and produce a mad long “Scrutiny.” Wait, there are some people talking about a fictional women’s center that will probably never get built? Stop the presses...
...conversation halts after this question. It’s like the Memorial Day moment of silence for their sexual peaks, both since passed. Elizabeth stares around the room, vacantly. Evan navel gazes. Shit gets mad awkward...
...years London was a hamburger wasteland. Remember the British take on American diners? Yech. The best most joints could offer was a fatty, premade beef patty lost inside a stale, wan roll. And if the bland, greasy taste didn't drive diners away, mad-cow disease and a backlash against fast food just about wiped hamburgers off London menus. But rejoice, burger lovers: the humble patty on a bun is experiencing a renaissance...