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Over the course of the Cleveland native’s career, Shalala has stood at the helm of New York??s Hunter College as its president and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as its chancellor...
...candy for needle-puncture marks. Nobody ever found any. There were the usual stories of unfortunate children biting into apples and finding razor blades, but we had grown immune to these by then. Everyone knew that you didn’t accept candy from strangers; everyone knew that New York??s streets were dangerous, especially on October 31st, and that apples were boring anyway. As city kids, we were used to these things—they actually made the night more exciting. So it seems strange—at least to one who put away her black...
...fill our growing classrooms. With this challenge in mind, in 2004, Congress attempted to institute “debt forgiveness on new student loans to help recruit more math, science and special ed teachers to underserved areas.” Similarly, a number of states—like New York??have added various incentives to the same effect. However, neither of these steps has worked to address the crux of the teacher-shortage issue. Given that student debt is “unmanageable” for 38 percent of aspiring teachers and 55 percent of aspiring social workers...
...Benton said, referring to his filmmaking philosophy, “but it’s the truth for me.” Benton’s approach is composed of equal parts rural Texas upbringing—straightforward and slightly off-kilter—and 1960s New York??uncompromising and envelope-pushing. Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, and lived his first years during the Great Depression. All he wanted to do was read, and he said that he can still remember the look of the covers, the feel of the pages, and the smells coming from...
...centers,” McCarthy said when asked about how he came up with material for the film. “Many of the things that Tarek says were out of the mouths of men I heard there.” McCarthy said that he tried to penetrate New York??s Arab enclaves to get a feel for the culture and make his film as close to life as possible. “I spent a lot of time hanging with the Arab community in New York City,” he said. “It?...