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...tale satires are hardly a new concept. However, the creators of this year's Hasty Pudding show, set in a fairy tale land gone bad, are aiming to offer a fresh take on the genre, complete with signature Pudding style.For its 160th production, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will perform "Fable Attraction," which features such characters as a communist-minded Little Red Riding Hood and Mia Pharaoh, a villainous, mummified Egyptian queen. This year's script and lyrics were co-written by Kathleen H. Chen '09 and William Brian C. Polk '09.The show is still very much a work...
...years before abortion was legalized, feminist medical pioneer Lorraine Rothman set out to put women's health care in the hands of women. The California clinic she co-founded taught patients how to perform their own cervical exams and pregnancy tests and, controversially, offered an extraction device Rothman developed that could be used for at-home abortions in the early stages of pregnancy. The method angered medical professionals but, in the words of social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, "legitimized the notion that [women] have the right to ... decide about procedures ... that affect our bodies." Rothman was 75 and had cancer...
...other end of the bar, Jonathan Travers, 26, the fan who publicly questioned the masculinity of Midwesterners, and Pete Bonavita, 22, perform their own cheer for XFL cameras in an attempt to add two opening-game tickets to the seven season tickets they have already purchased. They signal hands-over-crotch for the X, stick up middle fingers for the F and give the international "loser" signal, thumb and index finger smacked onto forehead...
Still, I was intrigued to read of a well-designed study released today by the Center on Education Policy that challenges decades of research on the advantages of private schools. "Contrary to popular belief, we can find no evidence that private schools actually increase student performance," said Jack Jennings, the center's president and a former staffer in the Democratic-controlled House, in a press release. "Instead, it appears that private schools simply have higher percentages of students who would perform well in any environment based on their previous performance and background...
...true that controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) eliminates most of the public-school/private-school differences in achievement-test scores in math, reading, science and history. But even after you control for SES, Catholic schools run by holy orders (not those overseen by the local bishop) turned out to perform better than other schools studied. True, as the study says, there are only a small number of religious-order schools. But the data suggests that the type of school a kid attends does affect how well he will do - and that we could learn something from how holy orders run their...