Word: magnetized
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...gradually integrated over the next three decades, thanks to an ambitious superintendent who improved academics and to liberal faculty at two local colleges who began sending their children to public school. Today Prince Edward's public schools are 59% black, 40% white and 1% other. Without violence, busing or magnet schools, the community that once chose no schools over racially mixed ones has achieved a level of integration far above the national average--typically, a white child attends a school that is 79% white. At the same time, Prince Edward's students are raising their state test scores. Black students...
It’s hard to overstate how good Dewis is in this show. Part of his greatness comes from his role; Lovborg is a tortured, fiery soul who draws audience empathy like iron filings to a magnet. But there’s more to Dewis’ turn than that; he hinted at a talent for understatement in Roberto Zucco earlier this season, and here he makes good on that promise. His performance is restrained, but neither bland nor mannered; it’s unpredictable and insightful, but never unrealistic or ill-defined. He did have a habit...
...other facebook news, John C. Blatt ’04 listed his sister as the person with whom he is in a relationship. Note to John: while you think such sweet treatment of your sister is a chick magnet, it?...
...free from the despotic rule of Saddam Hussein, their country is in a state of turmoil. Occupation has failed to provide any sort of security and is probably doing more harm than good. As a result of the presence of American troops, the country has become a magnet for terrorist groups which have been carrying out deadly attacks on civilians. The American corporations with contracts in Iraq have also failed to improve the state of the economy or rebuild the infrastructure. And in the gravest of Iraq’s losses, an estimated 20,000 Iraqi civilians...
...part, Bush boasts that nearly two-thirds of al-Qaeda's leaders have been captured or killed. Kerry frets about Iraq's turning into a quagmire for U.S. soldiers and "a major magnet" for terrorists. Bush argues that because we're fighting terrorists over there, we don't have to fight them here at home. Bush and Kerry even argue over the very nature of the war on terrorism. The Democrats, Bush says in his speeches, "view terrorism more as a crime, a problem to be solved with law enforcement and indictments...After the chaos and carnage of September...