All of these incidents in history
are integral to the plots of the Dan Brown novels. Nor is the call for a ban likely to put a
damper on The Da Vinci Code's sales, which will continue setting world
records, while feeding the intellectual hunger of many readers to
learn more about the ideas discussed in the book. As a
partner with the Department of Education in this initiative, NYC
Outward Bound helps each school implement its Expeditionary Learning
model, and oversees all aspects of the school, ranging from school
design, governance and evaluation, staff recruitment, development,
support and teambuilding to literacy and leadership programming for
students.

Founded in 1987, New York City Outward Bound is an independent
non-profit organization that brings the educational philosophy and
expertise of Outward Bound to New York City's public schools.

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As with most official critiques of books
and movies, Cardinal Bertone's recent comments will probably have the
opposite of their intended effects, making even more people inside and
outside the Catholic Church interested in experiencing what he has now
suggested should be considered a forbidden fruit.

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"Over the last two years, many Catholic scholars and theologians
have welcomed the discussion of the Da Vinci Code as an opportunity to
offer traditional Catholic viewpoints on controversial modern
questions.
"Expeditionary Learning is an intense school reform model in which
every aspect of a school--its curriculum, structure and
culture--promotes an experience-based approach to education.

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Religion Writers/Entertainment Editors/Book Editors

NEW YORK----Controversy continues
to swirl around The Da Vinci Code, even after two full years on the
bestseller list, more than 25 million copies sold worldwide, and the
creation of a multibillion dollar industry that includes everything
from Da Vinci Code tours of Paris to the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie
starring Tom Hanks. Both books are published by Squibnocket Partners LLC
in association with CDS Books.

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It is
unfortunate, however, that he has seen a need to call for a ban on The
Da Vinci Code, which is clearly a work of pop culture fiction, not a
serious treatise on theology.
As a student at Wesleyan University, Hawkes became involved in
education and was a primary school English teacher in Dakar, Senegal
for a year prior to his graduation. He has worked on community
development and education issues in the Teachers for Africa program
and the Centers for Social Responsibility and will complete the High
School Leadership Development Program and a masters' degree at the
School of Public Affairs at Baruch College (CUNY) this spring. Smith will complete an MS in Education
Administration at Baruch College this spring.

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According to news accounts, he specifically appealed to Catholic
bookstores -- including, presumably , the bookshop in the hospital
where Pope John Paul II has recently been treated, as well as others
bookshops right inside Vatican City and around the world -- to stop
selling The Da Vinci Code .

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LONG ISLAND CITY, N. He holds a Masters in Teaching Arts from
Lewis and Clark College and has been teaching since 1995, first in
Oregon and then in New York.

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In
addition to its fully- sponsored schools Expeditionary Learning
schools, NYC Outward Bound conducts in-school and after-school
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development; teacher training in classroom management, literacy
instruction, curriculum planning and diversity; and organizational
development programs for faculty, administration, parents and staff .

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In the latest episode, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone,
a powerful figure in the Vatican on matters of Church doctrine,
denounced the novel last week, calling on Catholics not to buy or read
the book , which he termed, "rotten food" and a "sack of lies.
"The recent statements probably also have something to do with
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is launching eight new high schools over the next five years as part
of the City's "Small High School Initiative.

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Sadly, Cardinal Bertone seems
to be suggesting a return to a time when Church leaders believed they
could win intellectual and philosophical debates by simply banning or
suppressing certain ideas.
This new swirl of controversy may have something to do with next
year's upcoming movie version of The Da Vinci Code, which will
inevitably be seen by many more people than even the millions who read
the book.----

Gates-Funded Expeditionary Learning High Schools Now in Two Boroughs

New York City Outward Bound today announced the locations and
named the principals of the two new small high schools the non-profit
organization will be opening in New York City in September, 2005.
Principal: Elijah Hawkes.

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There is a strict
prohibition on discussion of papal succession within the Vatican, but
the reality is that we have entered a period in Vatican politics that
is somewhat analogous to the Iowa caucuses in American presidential
contests.S.

The
new Expeditionary Learning(TM) schools are:

The James Baldwin Academy: Bayard Rustin Educational Complex,
West 18th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.

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"In short, I expect we will hear much more about this controversy
in the next few weeks, but don't assume it has all that much to do
with the actual novel.

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This practice was apparently
discontinued in the 1960s -- around the same time the Vatican
acknowledged that Mary Magdalene should not be confused with the
repentant prostitute mentioned in certain Gospel passages. Several new
titles in the "Secrets" series are planned for 2005-6.' To reinforce this all ninth
graders are required to participate in a week-long Outward Bound
backpacking course, where they break into small groups, called crews,
to get to know each other and develop the bonds that will help carry
them through their high school experience.

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"This process of correcting past mistakes in Church history --
highlighted by recent Vatican efforts to right the wrongs committed in
the case of Galileo or with regard to the Jews in history -- is a
welcome trend in modern Church thinking.
At Validus Preparatory Academy--"validus" is the Latin word for
strength--in addition to providing students with strong academic
skills, the school's focus will be on developing strong bodies and
character in its students.

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"For the better part of five centuries , from the Inquisition into
the twentieth century, the Church maintained a semi-official list of
books that were to be banned and shunned. That
means our students learn their core academic subjects through in-depth
projects that often require them to use the City itself as a
classroom," Stopol noted . Elijah
Hawkes, principal of James Baldwin Academy, joins the new school from
Humanities Prep where he has been co-director for three years.

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Cardinal Bertone
has set out to criticize what he sees as, in his opinion, the
dangerous and erroneous content of The Da Vinci Code.

In addition , Humanities Prep, an early small high school within
the City's public school system, which sits on the Bayard Rustin
campus with James Baldwin Academy, will join the Expeditionary
Learning network as well, adjusting its educational approach
accordingly. Its first fully-sponsored
school, Bronx Expeditionary Learning High School (BELHS), opened in
September 2004 in the Taft High School Campus in the Bronx.

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However, by
calling for a ban of the book, the Cardinal inadvertently lends
credence to Dan Brown's thesis that powerful people in the Church
don't want the faithful to hear certain ideas. My experience with leading Catholic thinkers, from
professors at religious institutions to members of Opus Dei, is that
they have generally embraced the debate over this wildly popular
novel , and found a positive opportunity to criticize what they find to
be in error in The Da Vinci Code , while also obtaining a forum to
express their own views of religious history and theology. It has been on
bestseller lists in Germany, South Africa, Canada, France, and Poland.

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$23. With the opening of these schools, and the addition
of Humanities Prep, NYC Outward Bound will be operating four high
schools in the City, and anticipates a total of eight by 2009, funded
by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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(In our new book, Secrets of Angels + Demons, we present the
views of many different Vatican-watching experts on how the papal
succession process actually works, and who the most likely current
candidates are)."
James Baldwin and Validus Prep are among the 26 new small high
schools slated to open next fall as part of the City's new small high
school initiative.

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Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer are editors of two bestselling
books devoted to explaining fact, fiction, speculation , and
controversy in the works of novelist Dan Brown.
In a statement issued today, Dan Burstein said, "I respect
Cardinal Bertone's opinion and his right to that opinion. Together, these two titles have over
a million copies in print worldwide. Principal: Brady Smith.

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More than 75 world class experts
with widely varying viewpoints--historians, theologians, art experts,
scientists, philosophers , linguists, occultists, medievalists, Bible
text experts, and other specialists--have contributed articles,
interviews, and book chapters to the two "Secrets" books.
"We are delighted that our proposals for our two new Expeditionary
Learning Schools were approved by the Department of Education ," said
Richard Stopol, NYC Outward Bound executive director.

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"It is surprising to many that a Church leader like Cardinal
Bertone would suddenly be speaking out against this novel more than
two years after its publication, and so long after so many Catholic
readers have bought it, read it, and engaged in the discussion of it."

Secrets of the Code and Secrets of Angels + Demons are
international bestsellers published in the U.com

The Validus Preparatory Academy: 1125 Grand Concourse at 166th
Street in the northern Bronx. Its principal will continue to be Vincent Brevetti. "And we are very
excited to be working with our two new principals, each of whom have
demonstrated their strength of vision and capacity for leadership in
education.
James Baldwin Academy is a spinoff of the successful Humanities
Prep High School, which was founded in 1997 and provides a
philosophical and practical education to its students to prepare them
to live "thoughtful and meaningful lives," incorporating the
principles of both the Coalition of Essential Schools which is a
partner with Humanities Prep and Expeditionary Learning.

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Burstein and de
Keijzer 's books, Secrets of the Code (about The Da Vinci Code) and
Secrets of Angels + Demons (about Dan Brown's "prequel" to Da Vinci
Code), each bring together a wide range of experts to comment on the
Dan Brown novels. Secrets of the Code spent
more than twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 2004
and has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Secrets of Angels + Demons made its debut on The New York Times
bestseller list recently at #25.95/ISBN 1-59315-022-9
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NYC Outward Bound Announces Locations Principal Appointments for Two New High Schools Opening in September; Adds Humanities Prep to Roster

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Bestselling 'Secrets of the Code' Author Dan Burstein Comments on the Case of 'The Cardinal vs. The Da Vinci Code'

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Banned books over the years
have reportedly included works by Flaubert, Balzac, Voltaire,
Stendahl, Swift, Locke, and Sartre. He has recommended "prudence," encouraged readers
to distinguish "fact from fiction" in the Da Vinci Code, and suggested
that it is not necessary to prohibit reading of this novel. That seems
to me a much more reasonable position for a Church leader to take. by CDS Books in
association with Squibnocket Partners LLC.

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schools, of which there are more than 125 around the country, have
consistently been shown to meet or surpass the academic standards in
their districts--we believe those statistics will prove true here as
well," he said. Validus Principal Brady Smith, joins the
school from the New Leaders for New Schools Program, where he is
completing his principal residency at IN-Tech Academy Middle and High
School 368 in the Bronx .

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"It is particularly ironic that Dan Brown's novels frequently call
attention to the suppression of ideas in Church history: The burning
and banning of works of "heretics;" the quashing of alternative
scriptures that have come to be known as the Gnostic Gospels; the fact
that the historical Mary Magdalene was mis-characterized for almost
1400 years by the Church as a prostitute; the epochal Church battle to
censor the great scientist Galileo.
"Interestingly, at least one emerging leader of the Church,
Monsignor Jose Maria Pinheiro, recently nominated to be the Bishop of
Sao Paulo , one of the largest Catholic communities in the world, has
taken an explicitly different view about the Da Vinci Code from that
of Cardinal Bertone."