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Matt Grohnke wasn't dumb; he just couldn't get interested in English literature or American history. During his first two years at Robinson High School in Fairfax, Va., Matt would count the minutes until he could get home and focus on his real passion--computers. So after some prodding from his guidance counselor, Matt applied to the career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt...
...pessimism isn't shared by Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor who has put together a Reparations Coordinating Committee to plot possible legal strategies. Or by Randall Robinson, head of the Washington-based lobbying group TransAfrica, which led the battle to impose the economic sanctions that helped topple white rule in South Africa. Robinson, who jump-started the reparations campaign last year with his book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, predicts that once blacks are unified behind the idea, whites can be persuaded to support reparations by an appeal to their sense of justice. "I don't think...
...Mary Robinson would like to kill once and for all the rumor that she ever coveted the post of U.N. secretary-general. That speculation, which began almost as soon as she assumed the role of U.N. high commissioner for human rights three and a half years ago, arose "only because I've had a very high profile as a woman," she says. Never one to mince words, Robinson is frank about just how ill-suited she would be for the top job. "I'm not a skilled diplomat in the kind of compromises a secretary-general must be prepared...
...Robinson has spent her career setting precedents. At 25, she was a member of the Irish Senate and the youngest-ever law professor at Trinity College Dublin. By the time she was 46 she had become Ireland's first female president. She is only the second occupant of the high commissioner post, but her tireless campaigning - she has visited more than 60 countries - and unyielding outspokenness have transformed the office into an international bully pulpit. Her willingness to, as she puts it, "criticize those who are your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel...
...Kate Hudson appears looking translucent and no older than your average teenage 'N Sync fan. She is accompanied by her new husband, Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson. I realize that this makes her Mrs. Robinson, placing a new, different perspective on that name. I chat with them about the fact that Kate's mother Goldie Hawn had eulogized the Beatles at the Academy Awards exactly 30 years ago, when they were nominated for an Academy Award for their "Let It Be" score. The disbanded Beatles were a no-show, and when they won the Oscar, Goldie Hawn's speech became...