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...It’s bad for education. We’ve abandoned real education for basically test prep and gate keeping,” said Larry W. Ward, father of three children in the Cambridge public school system...
...Blake, their Radcliffe wives Natalie and Anne, respectively, and their circle of friends. The musical alternates between flashbacks of the roommates’ college days in the late 50’s and their 25th reunion in 1986. Joe is an upstart kid from Brooklyn while Blake is a prep schooler with legacy to the gills; yet improbably enough, they remain roommates all four years, each figuring out what makes the other irritating yet intriguing. At their class reunion 25 years later, friendships are put to the test when the facades each character had created to hide his real troubles...
...gathered last Thursday in the Treaty Room of the White House so the aides could grill him before his first prime-time news conference. They sprayed him with questions. Should Americans be afraid? What will the U.S. do in Afghanistan after the Taliban is defeated? It was the second prep session of the day, and Bush was getting impatient. Then came another question: How could he possibly leave the U.S. Wednesday to take a scheduled trip to China? Bush clenched his jaw. "Well, Mrs. Bush and I want to encourage Americans to go out shopping," he said. "And I broke...
...pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas’ father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi all attended Dwight prep school in New York City) and publicists’ assertions that they are überhip (“they dress as if the 1970s and the 80s fell into the same laundry hamper”), the five young band members proceed with unpolished, unpretentious gusto that fans and critics...
This weekend Harvard’s finest rowers will prep their coxswains and grease their oars as they embark on the 37th annual Head of the Charles regatta...