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...longest-serving Chinese political prisoner, was last interviewed by Cunningham before he was arrested again for speaking with foreign reporters and the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, John Shattuck, after Wei was released from prison in 1993, 14 years after his initial 1979 arrest...
Readers beware! Do not be confused by Professor Paul Peterson's latest piece in this month's Commentary magazine on school choice. School choice refers to the freedom of parents and students to choose either between competing public schools or between public and private schools. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck professor of Government, summarizes the recent literature on this recent development in education policy...
...cover its annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think the MLA is the evil empire," says Alter, who maintains membership in both groups. "It's an umbrella organization. But academic people are conformist. With 30,000 people under...
...Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene, assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston, found that, among minority students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those educated at private schools scored higher on standardized tests than did those from public schools...
...them to court unless one sells the others out. "The witnesses who could really convict Milosevic still work for him," says a human-rights analyst. "They owe him everything." Even then to convict the men at the top, says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights John Shattuck, "you need direct evidence of their complicity in specific crimes." Leading the war is not enough...