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...like police stations surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, and the West Belfast peace line, a barrier that has separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods longer than Berlin was divided by its wall. Their guide, Bren-dan McKernan, laced fact with a heavy dose of blarney. He recited the alphabet soup of Irish paramilitary groups just as the bus passed a fast food restaurant. To the i.r.a., i.n.l.a., u.d.a. and u.v.f., he added kfc. "Their leader was known as the Colonel," he deadpanned. "They were responsible for a lot of stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves by repeating that passengers...
Tuesday, Oct. 18. Freefall New York Concert. Harvard student band Freefall takes their act on the road with a free show in the Big Apple. 10 p.m. Alphabet Lounge, NYC. Free and open to the public...
...aids pandemic when it began in the 1980s - and was the first African country to fight the disease seriously. The ABC approach has helped cut the hiv rate in adults from more than 15% in 1990 to just under 7% today. Has the Ugandan government now forgotten its alphabet? A group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed a condom shortage while promoting a message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from ABC to AB," Stephen...
...Humboldt Park Elementary School, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade, a charming scene unfolds in Karen Hennessy's classroom. Her kindergartners are enjoying a visit from their eighth-grade "buddies." All around the room, big kids sit knees to chest in miniature chairs or cross-legged on the alphabet carpet. Each little kid has chosen a picture book to share with a big buddy. Some lean on eighth-grade laps as they listen. Logan Wells, a strapping 14-year-old, reads The Little Engine That Could to Alec Matias and Jacob Hill. Jacob, 5, seems mesmerized equally by the bright...
WHAT'S THE TOUGHEST THING YOU FIND ABOUT GETTING YOUR TWO KIDS [AGES 18 AND 13] READY FOR SCHOOL IN THE FALL? For moms and dads who are getting ready for back to school of public-school children, there's a lot of alphabet soup. There's a lot of bureaucratese and education mumbo jumbo: AYP [adequate yearly progress] and the HQT [highly qualified teacher]. I think it's sometimes intimidating for parents and sometimes hard to navigate as to what the meaning of all that is to your own child. Now I'm embarking on this whole new sending...