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Cleaned up with a nice, strong pin in his hip, Sandy turned out to be one helluva nice guy. Big New York Athletic Club member, full of great stories about the great old guard in the plummy old days of his rich, old town. I would never have guessed that five days ago, before Sandy had been admitted to the medical service, he had been lying on the floor of his apartment with a broken hip for at least three days. Dehydrated, delirious, with bone-deep pressure sores all over his back and rear end, he was the lone city...
...changes.) That experience made him confident in challenging financial orthodoxy. "I was tossed out of banks across America," says Sandor. "They said interest rates wouldn't change, that financial futures were pointless." They were wrong - financial futures are now a multi-trillion-dollar industry, and Sandor is a very rich man. (Hear Sandor talk about the emissions trading market on this week's Greencast...
Catholicism's rich intellectual tradition makes its faith tradition richer, because the point isn't just to believe but to know WHY you believe. Benedict the scholar, as Jeff Israely and David van Biema noted in their TIME cover story this month, admires America's blending of faith and reason. And yet it's this very facet of our religion that is itching powder to a church that insists that only it can be trusted in the end to exercise reason on moral questions - don't try theology at home, the Vatican always seems to tell us - because it inevitably...
...usually by race, gender, and socioeconomic status, which has really bothered me,” said Shreefter, who is also a student representative to the school committee. “It’s about showing the student they’re just as important as the rich white kid sitting next to them,” she added. While the group MCAS scores of white and black students have increased individually, a significant gap remains between them. On the 2007 MCAS, there was a 30 percent ELA difference between the advanced scores of white and black students, with...
...kitchen workshops in which participants learned how to prepare the food themselves. In reality, though, the most effective education broke down into three separate categories: breakfast, lunch, and dinner (with snack time and wine tasting as twice-a-day bonuses). Tropical fruit spreads, bowls of berries, cauldrons of rich, hot, nut-filled cereal, plates of smoked King Salmon, pear butter, and baskets of Blueberry Peanut muffins covered three ping-pong-sized tables. And that was just breakfast. “I’ve never seen so much eating at a healthy food conference,” one attendee said...