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...There is a small, but not insignificant, faction in the U.S. military that thinks the only way to stabilize Baghdad is to forcibly disarm al-Sadr's militia. The Hizballah story may have been unofficial, second-tier military lobbying. And the Hadley memo? "A parting gift from Don Rumsfeld," guessed an Iraq expert with close ties to the White House. "He's the only one who had access and motivation. The memo proves his point: it's the political process, not the military operation, that's the problem in Iraq." Would Rumsfeld be so spiteful as to embarrass the President...
...guidance, according to Schanfield. In order to address the challenges of the high school application process, Citizen Schools devised a special track called 8th Grade Academy (8GA) in 2001, according to Director Tony R. Dugas.8GA engages students in hands-on learning and motivates them to apply to top-tier, college-track high schools in the area to increase their chances for future success, says Dugas. “We help them navigate the system. Our top goal is to get 100 percent to enroll in top tier high schools,” explains Tasha B. Patusky, the high school...
...viewing decks and glass elevators are things you can find in a lot of buildings that don't come with elaborate theoretical justifications. The truly impressive aesthetic gamesmanship at the ICA takes place in the deceptively simple Mediatheque, a sloping room with grandstand-style seating, each tier equipped with computer stations for looking at digital artworks and downloading videos about artists. Suspended at an angle from beneath the long, cantilevered upper story, the room culminates in a window wall that looks down directly onto the surface of Boston Harbor, roughly 40 ft. below. The result is the kind of view...
...Nashville, a Doomsday kaleidoscope set to country music, splashed the whole South with his wily cynicism; Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson said that American history was a lie dressed up in showbiz frills; and A Wedding, his black spray-paint on a four-tier nuptial cake, contained 48 characters, for no better reason than that Nashville had had 24. But there was a quieter, artsier side to Altman, evident in his eerie, miniature studies of women on the verge of madness That Cold Day in the Park, Images, 3 Women...
...says. While Zhang and the rest of Harvard’s future Class of 2008 were preparing their college applications, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel L. Golden ’78 was writing a series of articles on the inequalities of admissions practices at top-tier universities that would earn him a Pulitzer Prize. Many of the articles, and the vast majority of Golden’s book—“The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates...