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...Cambridge School Committee unexpectedly fired Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro last night, saying she failed to define a clear vision for the school system or to close the racial and socio-economic achievement gaps that have plagued the system for decades...
Significant long-term progress in socio-economic diversity depends upon its inclusion in Harvard’s recruiting and admissions priorities alongside crucial initiatives at racial, ethnic and geographic diversity. Improving low-income recruiting will only reinforce those efforts...
...Arab street is a key battlefield in the struggle between the U.S. and al-Qaeda, a recent UNDP study of the socio-economic outlook for the Arab world is cause for concern. Arab populations are growing, economies are shrinking, and the authoritarian religious and political culture leaves the citizenry prone to direct its rage towards the West rather than at the leaders who have failed them. That's why, despite the support from Arab regimes and their intelligence services for the U.S. campaign against Bin Laden's network, the Arab world remains fertile ground for recruiting al-Qaeda members...
...final, impassioned attacks on the Core Curriculum (‘Worst . . idea . . .ever’), or on the wickedness of Senior Gift (it’s too late, anyway), or on the University’s blinkered pursuit of cosmetic (i.e. racial) pluralism at the expense of any socio-economic and intellectual diversity—both of which ought to be slightly more important than whether we decide to fund a Committee on Chicano Studies, don’t you think? Just asking...or I would be, if I were writing that kind of column...
...billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared as a guest for various orchestras around the world, finally getting fired from the symphony...