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Saint Etienne are beautiful. Repeatedly, consistently and achingly beautiful. After brandishing a decidedly pop wand in last year's Good Humor, Pristine chanteuse Sarah Cracknell, understated pop priestess in the vein of Diana Ross, returns with gifted nerd musicians Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs to make more of that astro...
Unfortunately, because students rarely have the time to pay attention to the solemn readings, the memorials fade into the background, becoming indiscernible rhetoric. It is an offensive spectacle, hardly fulfilling the readings' intentions, when students tramp through Tercentenary Theater without even registering that the stream of names represent blameless victims...
However, the most troubling aspect of the Cleveland voucher experiment has nothing to do with test scores and everything to do with the danger that vouchers could undermine the role that public schools have played in American life. Public schools have long held the promise of being America's great...
East of the Mountains is best read, perhaps, as a kind of firelit Steinbeck Western about how a deliberate man learns the virtues of having his plans overturned and comes to embrace a life he'd all but given up on. Some readers may find the novel a little too...
Some of the bodies were provisioned with bundles of food wrapped in alpaca skin, which indicates that the children came from the Incan social elite--not surprising, since only people of high status would have been considered worthy of sacrifice. Little is known about the sacrificial ceremony itself; these objects...