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...Public Schools at a special roundtable session for committee members and school officials this past Tuesday. The session was marked by haggling over the accuracy of numbers presented by school officials and disputes over the cause of the decline. But all present agreed that the decline in enrollment is real??not a “temporary dip” as has been asserted in the past—and that steps should be taken to reverse the trend. According to numbers provided by the Massachusetts Department of Education, Cambridge Public School enrollment decreased from 6,927 students...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cantab School Numbers Down | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...Public Schools at a special roundtable session for committee members and school officials this past Tuesday. The session was marked by haggling over the accuracy of numbers presented by school officials and disputes over the cause of the decline. But all present agreed that the decline in enrollment is real??not a “temporary dip” as has been asserted in the past—and that steps should be taken to reverse the trend. According to numbers provided by the Massachusetts Department of Education, Cambridge Public School enrollment decreased from 6,927 students...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Have All the Students Gone? | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

...quiz: which of the following terms is “real?...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...Dystopic” is one word to describe these scenarios; and, in some respects, the landscapes and neighborhoods of “Persuasion Nation” are similarly alien. They feel not so much like our “real?? world as some dark parody...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

However, the serious achievement of these mostly very funny narratives is their uncanny points of resemblance to our “real?? reality—the reality of “reality” being something that Saunders, with his predilection for describing individuals trapped in hegemonic, perspective-maiming systems, often calls directly into question. This is a world “very much like” our own, as one pair of characters in “In Persuasion Nation” is shown “escaping the old folks’ home, going to live...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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