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  <name><![CDATA[Paul Tough]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Paul Tough is the author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618569898?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pautou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0618569898&quot;&gt;Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America&lt;/a&gt;. He is an editor at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html&quot;&gt;New York Times Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, where he has written extensively about education, poverty and politics, including cover stories on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E7D91030F933A15755C0A9629C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;Harlem Children’s Zone&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17NewOrleans-t.html?pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;post-Katrina school system in New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/magazine/26tough.html?pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;No Child Left Behind and charter schools&lt;/a&gt;. He has worked as an editor at Harper’s Magazine and as the founding editor of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openletters.net&quot;&gt;Open Letters&lt;/a&gt;, an online magazine of first-person correspondence, and as a reporter and producer for the public-radio program &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thislife.org&quot;&gt;“This American Life&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; where he reported, most recently, on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=364&quot;&gt;parents enrolled in the Harlem Children Zone's Baby College&lt;/a&gt;. His writing has appeared in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/schoolhouse/default.aspx&quot;&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;, Esquire, GQ, and the New Yorker. He lives with his wife in New York City. For more information, please visit his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paultough.com&quot;&gt;web site&lt;/a&gt; or his &lt;a href=&quot;http://paultough.com/wordpress/&quot;&gt;book blog&lt;/a&gt;.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Toronto</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[What counts: The complete Harper's index]]></title>
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