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These high schools, known as "feeder schools," are generally very selective private or magnet public schools that may also have a traditional, long-standing relationship with Harvard. They are almost exclusively in the Northeast...
There are several non-boarding schools that also have considerable numbers of students admitted to Harvard each year. These include Roxbury Latin, a small all-male private school in West Roxbury, Stuyvesant, a public magnet school in New York City and the Boston Latin School, a public magnet school in Boston...
...Assistant Secretary of Education under George Bush, is worried that these temporary setbacks will sour people on the idea of contracting private companies to run public schools. In fact, says Ravitch, schools need "an arsenal of approaches" to blast away at the public education crisis, including magnet and charter schools. "You can't tell kids in poor schools to hang on and five years from now the school will turn around," says Ravitch. "Their time...
...likewise appealing stage presence as a gay companion/adviser/manager to Andrews. Having found true love in the unlikely form of a mobster's bodyguard, he moves deftly from whimsical philosophizing to jubilant clowning. Michael Nouri, as the Chicago mobster who falls for Andrews, is evidently meant to embody animal magnetism. While he's neither animal nor magnet enough to be fully convincing, he has some likable moments of sexual confusion. Poor thug, he can't be sure whether the creature he's pining after is a woman or a man. Edwards' direction turns up a couple of charming visual gags...
Precisely because of their distinctive features, the islands have become a magnet for tourists. The number of visitors has swelled from 1,000 in the early 1960s, after the Darwin Research Station opened, to more than 50,000 last year. Many of the off-islanders are ecotourists who are respectful of environmental laws, but some of the tour operators are not. Ship crews dump garbage and sewage directly into the sea, says Alfredo Carrasco, secretary-general of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Isles. "Tourists used to come here out of a pure interest in nature," he laments...