2004: The Turning Point
In this article I base my projections not on stock prices, sales trends or focus group analysis. I base it on what I think - on what I feel, in the classic sense of the Idoru - is driving the hearts of those who will make the final decisions on the future of the internet, those who use it. More...
Despite the horrific timing of his remarks, President Trump’s defense of Confederate statues last week revealed a viewpoint that’s widely held in this country — and not just by neo-Nazis or white supremacists. More...
The University of Texas’ abrupt decision to remove Confederate statues in the middle of the night after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, raises the question of whether other public universities, cities and towns across the state will follow its lead. More...
Late Sunday night, 10 days before classes were scheduled to start, workers at the University of Texas at Austin began removing three Confederate statues from a prominent grass mall on campus. More...
Duke University has removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the entrance of an on-campus chapel. More...
Who could conceive that the Granite State would adopt as its motto part of the historic volunteer toast offered by General John Stark in his response declining the invitation to head up the 32nd reunion of the Battle of Bennington – “Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.” Now more than 200 years later, the venerable words, live free or die, adorn New Hampshire motor vehicles. With this in mind, despite inescapable state appropriation shortfalls, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) is pioneering new pathways to stimulate New Hampshire’s economy and populate its pool of smart collar workers. More...
Teachers’ predicted grades are notoriously inaccurate – so let’s use A-level results instead to end the crazy telephone lottery of clearing. More...
L’académicien Pierre Nora a expliqué, le 30 mars 2017, dans L’Obs que l’histoire chronologique, « faussement classique », de Patrick Boucheron, le directeur de l’Histoire mondiale de la France, était une trahison de son projet initial d’histoire de France à travers ses Lieux de mémoire. Pour lui, même si Patrick Boucheron s’en défend, la cavalcade des événements inscrite dans le plan même de l’ouvrage constitue une résurgence du roman national. Plus...
This simple phrase was the cornerstone of Nancy Reagan’s drug abuse awareness initiative, rolled out in response to perceptions of sharp increases in youth drug use from the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. It was also the cornerstone of D.A.R.E., the controversial youth substance abuse prevention program. More...
By Matt Reed. Fifty years ago, when community colleges were springing up at the rate of one a week across the country, people were mobile and capital wasn’t. Extending education to previously underserved areas made sense because the money in those areas was likely to stay there and to grow; companies needed workers. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
