Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be a delicious moment, without hurry, without locomotives,…
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The Last Poet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8 (12)
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From ProPublica: In the hundreds of pages of legal filings, Fisher’s lawyers spend almost no time arguing that Fisher would have gotten into the university but for her race. … In 2008, the year Fisher sent in her application, competition to get into the crown jewel of the Texas university…
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Source: Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (12)
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From CampusProgress: The student loan crisis is a myth. So say Nicole Allan and Derek Thompson, who argue in this month’s issue of The Atlantic that the economic returns of college far outweigh the burden of student loan debt. “Horror stories of students drowning in $100,000+ in debt might discourage…
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From In These Times: The right-wing, free market vision of University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman informed the blueprint for the rapid privatization of municipal services throughout the world due in no small part to what author Naomi Klein calls “disaster capitalism.” Friedman wrote in his 1982 treatise Capitalism and…
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Findings —From Harper’s, the March 2013 issue In Britain, … heavy rains were washing Scottish hedgehogs from their nests, a flock of sheep adopted a young deer at Dunwich Heath, two dragons hatched in Cambridgeshire, and two men were charged with hare coursing in Lincolnshire, where the feet and heads…
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