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...WHAT COMES AFTER DEATH: "Rigor...
...Lamonts ever find a middle ground on the road between academic rigor and riff-laden rock? According to Knipfing, a Harvard concert isn’t entirely out of the cards “if the money’s right and beer’s free,” and he even admits to an appreciation for Lamont Library’s resources; all band members “like a good read.” Still, when it comes to blows between the two Lamonts, Knipfing seems assured of which would win. “The edge always...
...HARD AND SOFT Nobody balances rigor and delicacy like Lagerfeld, who combines lightweight embroidered tweed suits with metallic boots for his fall 2003 couture collection...
...titillating contention that the most popular radical works of the Enlightenment, such as the influential Thérèse Philosophe, which follows a young woman's sexual and philosophical development, "were from the genre of philosophical pornography." Vive La Revolution's chatty informality doesn't detract from its rigor. Steel is not a historian, but he's done his homework. Even Revolution buffs may find surprising new facts - like the 15-min. bathside chat Charlotte Corday shared with revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat before murdering him - or provocative takes on old ones. The tale of how Marie Antoinette trod...
...sophisticated work forces AP teachers to make a Hobson's choice: teach all the high-level curriculum, which may mean moving too quickly for some students, or slow down the presentation of material so that no child is left behind. The result: AP classes that vary as widely in rigor as low-fat foods do in calories. At the selective Wilson Senior High School in Washington, each AP English class read at least 10 novels this year, but those at Bell Multicultural, in which about 70% of students speak English as a second language, read only four. Agnes Akwarandu...