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When my father was young he used to escape Brooklyn by going to Europe for the summer, taking his meager English teacher’s pay and using it all on a flight and two months of living abroad. He likes to tell us that back then nobody could e-mail you money and credit cards didn’t exist. I heard him recounting this once again to my college roommate who had come to stay the night at my house in Brooklyn the day before we would begin our own escape...
When I was young, my family would spend the summer in Long Beach Island (LBI), a half-mile-wide tourist haven in Ocean County, New Jersey. My memories of LBI are of miniature golf, of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cones, and of long walks along the sand with my parents. Consider this along with—though my Irish name does its best to obfuscate it—my Sicilian heritage, and I’m perhaps as entitled as anyone to be offended by MTV’s “Jersey Shore...
Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey M. Young proposed during yesterday’s school committee meeting the establishment of a middle school in the city’s K-8 school system to close the achievement gap among different socioeconomic and ethnic groups...
...Young advocated accelerating the improvement of under-performing groups while continuing to support white and Asian students, as well as expanding the student body to close the achievement gap. Currently, eight of the 11 K-8 public schools in Cambridge have fewer than 400 students...
...throughout “Rebirth.” In “Paradice,” Wayne copies the narrative structure of Journey’s legendary “Don’t Stop Believin’,” rapping first, “she was a young girl,” and then, “he was a young boy;” and directly references Smash Mouth’s equally famous “Allstar,” rapping, “everything that glitters ain’t gold...