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...unfair distribution of more resources to Irish schools. "These schools could unintentionally lead to a kind of white flight from English-language education," she says. At Kavanagh's English-speaking school, one of the most diverse in the country, 95% of the students are children of immigrants. At the nearest Irish-language school, only 5% of the student body is foreign-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Language Dilemma | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Tris’s best friends, Norah (Kat Dennings), has fallen in love with Nick’s mix CDs, despite never having met their maker. While attending a show by Nick’s band, The Jerk Offs, Norah, feeling lonely, grabs the nearest guy and tells Tris it’s her boyfriend (even though, as we later discover, she already has one). As chance would have it, that guy is Nick, and their relationship springs from there as they attempt to track down the secret show put on that night in New York by Where?...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Whom would I eat? That's a very interesting, silly question. Well, it would be the nearest person to me, so it would probably be my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Simon Pegg | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...frontrunner in Kadima, according to the latest Haaretz-Channel 10 polls, is Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with 47% of the party vote. Her nearest rival, the more hawkish Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz has only 28% according to the poll. (To win the party leadership in the first-round primary, the top candidate must win at least 40% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Follow Olmert as Israeli Prime Minister? | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...mankind. This year it's bursting with life, especially in the fields where local farmers grow barley, potatoes and teff, a cereal used to make the flat, spongy bread injera. As a warm July rain falls on a patchwork of smallholdings half a day's walk from the nearest road, the women harvest yams, the men plow behind sturdy oxen and fat chickens, goats and cows roam outside mud huts. And yet for all the apparent abundance, this area is so short of food that many are dying from starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Pain amid Plenty | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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