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Opinion
Guess Who’s Taking Remedial Classes
A new study shows that schools in privileged communities are failing to prepare significant numbers of students for college.All children are not equal.
The elementary and secondary schools task has been to make all able children
functional members of society fit to be trusted with the franchise.
This is not the same as college entering freshmen.
About half the children get to college entrance competence in twenty four semesters.
More pressure does not seem to help.
Different instruction as found in preparatory schools may help.
Courses of study in college differ.
English majors are not engineering majors are not painters.
All can be college educated.
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Fashion & Style
Holland Casey, Maxwell Bent
The couple met on a flight to Nantucket in 2013, which is how the groom’s parents met three decades before.Any rite you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Irim Salik, Mahmud Riffat
The bride is an anesthesiologist and the groom works for an equity firm.Any rite you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Men Who Don’t Wear Wedding Bands — and Why
A number of men, including a presidential candidate, have abandoned the tradition of wearing wedding rings. Some women, too.I do not wear rings.
I will wear one if it comforts you.
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Fashion & Style
Lisa Sullivan, Eric Lopata
The couple met at Harvard, from which they received law degrees.Any rite you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Books
‘A Perfect Life,’ by Eileen Pollack
Genetics complicates the love life of a novel’s biologist.Jane's is the work of an investigator.
Most lab work is demanding drudgery.
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Fashion & Style
Sunny Cheong, Matt Suberlak
The bride and groom met at Yale, from which they graduated.Any rite you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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World
In Fort McMurray, Fire Leaves a Black Line of Destruction
A school intact on one side of a street, a home devastated on the other. In Fort McMurray, Alberta, where a fire continued Monday, contrasts abound.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
Not comparable.
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U.S.
U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
The Obama administration wants colleges and universities to lower barriers for people with past convictions.If the corrections system worked it would be a good idea.
As things stand caution is advised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist
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Times Insider
The Everyday Faces of Sex Workers
A common result is a rental life and its short horizon.
The children are handicapped.
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Business Day
Treasury Department Rejects Plan to Cut Pension Benefits for Teamsters
The move was welcomed by workers and retirees, but did not offer a solution for the pension fund, which is on track to go bankrupt in about 10 years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Banks are terrible managers of funds.
Nonunion carriers have dominated trucking.
Bluecollar life expectancy has not risen.
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Food
What to Cook This Week
A Mother’s Day cheat sheet, and recipes for the week ahead.It is time for me to replenish the larder.
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Opinion
Gulf Coast Climate Risks
Oxfam America writes that offshore energy revenues should be invested to reduce climate risks.Possibly the best investment is leaving the carbon in the ground.
Climate Change and Sensible Policy
Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 2 hours ago
Yes, if we had any sense, we wouldn’t be here. But let’s emphasize, we’re
past the point of no return. By this point sensible governments not only
wouldn’t be allowing things like fracking, coal plants and
non-intercontinental air travel (high speed trains, children), they would
be shooting people who insist on doing any of those […]
The post has been taken down.
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Opinion
I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
A man brings objects to life in an effort to recreate the lost memory of his mother’s last day.The last days were quiet.
I suggested documenting mother's decline.
My siblings thought it a bad idea.
On reflection I agree.
I work at remembering the vital person
My younger sister in law took a late picture
I have not kept a copy.
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The Upshot
A Fast Talk With New York’s Fed Chief, and a View of a Steady Economy
William Dudley expects “growth that will cause the labor market to continue to tighten, which is what we would like.”This is a negative view buried in speculation tinged with hope.
Rates should not rise soon.
Returns on loans will stay low.
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World
Fort McMurray, a Canadian Oil Boom Town, Is Left in Ashes
Fast-moving wildfires have consumed entire swaths of a town that had drawn residents with fat paychecks and second chances, though some residents vow to rebuild.The town will survive.
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N.Y. / Region
Mel Bartholomew, an Engineer Who Popularized Square Foot Gardening, Dies at 84
Mr. Bartholomew’s innovation saved water and space by folding traditional rows of vegetables into a raised bed that could fit on porches, patios, decks or roofs.The technique is a patch.
We will miss his thinking.
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N.Y. / Region
At Red Fox, the Fare Is Hearty Above All Else
The restaurant’s chef and owner, Fico Cecunjanin, has expertly adapted his Montenegrin roots to Italian cuisine.Middletown is a good place to pause.
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Job Market
Testing the Bounds of Faith in Little Yemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control
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Travel
The Bywater Celebrates New Orleans (in California)
Pretty much everything about the restaurant is a testament to David Kinch’s love of New Orleans.Fresh and local does not mean New Orleans in Southern California.
We can visit New Orleans. We can visit Los Angeles.
I do not want to make either home.
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Fashion & Style
Tara Hagan and Thomas Malloy: Whole Foods, Half-Sizes and Homework
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
The Upshot
Why Science Can’t Help You Much in Deciding on Circumcision
Research points to both advantages and disadvantages. In the end, it’s a personal choice.The Holocaust may be part of the reason.
U.S.
U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
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