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...book was a surprise mega best seller, with more than 4 million copies now in print worldwide. Levitt and Dubner became sought-after speakers and much-linked-to bloggers. They had made economics seem unexpectedly ... fun. "CSI: Economics," one observer called it. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
With the tale of their predecessors’ success in mind, this year’s freshmen seem poised to write a sequel. Yesterday, the lightweight boats took to the water at the Carnegie Chase in Princeton, N.J., and the rookies crossed the finish line in the freshman eight race with a resounding victory...
...would seem, there’s no hope. Just last week, the most recent standardized test results showed that, despite improvements, Cambridge students are still scoring below the state average and that the racial achievement gaps in the city are larger than they are in Massachusetts as a whole. Particularly distressing was the staggering 44-point achievement gap between white and black students on the seventh-grade math test. The disappointing results come in the face of natural advantages that most cities would kill for: notably, a blank check from taxpayers—at last count, an extraordinary...
...everyone—not just those who have pored over the texts—seems to have an opinion. Students not much better versed than myself in matters of policy seem utterly committed to one or the other side of the debate. When I am confronted regarding my views on health care, admitting my moderate ignorance is taken as conceding the correctness of my challenger. Some people even see my lack of knowledge on the issue as a moral affront...
...strings and a harpsichord. Eccles’ “Semele” is a more sexually graphic version than the better-known Handel opera of the same name. Because the Early Music Society shifts the setting of the story, however, the raunchy nature of the opera does not seem as out-of-place as it might have at the time of its creation...