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...pretentious asshole either—as some of his favorite books attest: “1984,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” John just loved that AP English reading. Every single one of those books changed his life, as he wrote in his college essay. Some of them changed it multiple times. In his spare time, he reads modern classics with long, paradoxical...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Real Difference | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...like an ingenue--my nose was too long, I had crooked teeth," comedic singer and character actress Alice Ghostley, below, said of her prospects for success in show biz. "But I also knew I'd find a way." The Tony winner appeared in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Graduate but was best known as the befuddled housekeeper-witch Esmerelda on TV's Bewitched. Ghostley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 8, 2007 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...John Hope High, Gates and Golston visited a biology class bursting with fancy new lab kits, books, DVDs and other materials. At Wendell Phillips Academy High School, she saw an English class working its way through pristine copies of To Kill a Mockingbird. The new materials for teaching science, English and math are one element of the transformation plan - one that clearly thrills teachers. Duncan explains that each department gets three choices of curriculum materials rather than having them dictated by the central office. The process helps to energize the teachers and get them working together, say administrators and educators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Listening Tour with Melinda Gates | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

...CLAY, director of the library system in Fairfax County, Va., about the threat to remove thousands of books from its 21 libraries, including classics like Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because they haven't been checked out in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jan. 15, 2007 | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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