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Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine was not able to attend the event, but sent a letter to Wilson that was read aloud...
...Road Elementary, a public school in Gaithersburg, Md., this month's pillar of character is Citizenship. School hallways have names: Responsibility Lane, Trustworthiness Terrace, Caring Corridor. In Tammy Orsini's first-grade class, students assemble in groups to list the traits that make good citizenship, which are then read aloud. Being a good citizen, a boy recites, means "to have character...
...have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings too. Parents are so busy these days, as they will tell you at every opportunity. Of course, they have time to worry aloud about the quality of their local schools. But character ed is evidence that our schools are worried about the quality of their local parents...
Michael Eisner, sitting on the witness stand 43 stories above Century City's Avenue of the Stars, flushed red when he heard the words read aloud. Anger, with a touch of embarrassment, crossed his face. The "midget," Jeffrey Katzenberg--Eisner's one-time protege at Walt Disney Co.--stared icily at his former boss. It was the moment Hollywood had been waiting for since Katzenberg sued Disney three years ago, claiming Mouseco had ripped him off to the tune of some $250 million in bonus money...
...Oklahomans heard the shriek of the warning sirens gradually overwhelmed by a sound variously described as like a locomotive, or a screaming jet engine, or nothing on Earth. The worst fear, said Moore resident Delee MacAlister, "is the terror of knowing you are going to die. We prayed aloud: 'God save us! God save us! God save us! O, God!' It lasted for an eternity...