Despite worthy aims, the new standards may well deepen the nation's social divide. (nytimes.com)
Donoghue sets out to read Moby - Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with two worthy aims: first, to explain how these works «make available to readers... a shared cultural experience, something in which American society is otherwise impoverished,» and second, to suggest how they «put in question the otherwise facile ideology of individualism on which American culture complacently prides itself.» (firstthings.com)
While these are worthy aims the nature of Northern Irish politics means that the shared society the Alliance Party wants to create where Northern Ireland takes advantage of its links to the UK, Ireland and Europe may be some way away. (politics.co.uk)