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...year, Sarah Ferszt, 17, of Wakefield, R.I., had already been to four proms. When most of her friends graduated, she began cutting class and losing focus. "High school was torture," says Ferszt. "I'd grown out of it. For some people, senior year just doesn't make sense." Kevin Quinn, Ferszt's counselor at South Kingstown High School, helped make her final year more meaningful by directing Ferszt to a dual-enrollment program at the local community college. There she is finishing earning her high school credits and beginning college-level classes. "Seniors need something to gravitate...
...might possibly be headed for a real crash here,” said D. Quinn Mills, Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration...
...VOLUME THREE In this dark, tense, terrifically grownup British spy series, the wiliest enemies are often on the same side as the good guys. As the third season opens, British agent Tom Quinn (the steely Matthew Macfadyen) has been set up in the assassination of the head of the British military, allowing rivals in the government to launch a political takeover of the MI-5 security service. In many ways, it resembles 24--the subterfuge, the personal entanglements, the willingness to kill major characters--but MI-5 is less pyrotechnic and more cerebral. The good guys harbor doubts and make...
...staid world of poetry, where words can be weapons, two of its biggest guns appear to have engaged in battle. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has challenged Alice Quinn, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue...
...that brings people to Washington in the first place (universal health care, peace in the Middle East, unlimited think-tank cheese plates), one of the perks is the power marriage. Few are aiming for a truly high-wattage pairing on a par with Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn's or James Carville and Mary Matalin's. The hope is to be an equal partner in a couple where you make a difference while also making loads of money and not getting indicted, if you can manage it. Both of you don't have to be famous; you just both have...