Word: april
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Halfway to the 5,000 Facebook friend limit he last April, he posted on his blog under the title of “I am a friendly guy”: “I now have over 2500 friends on Facebook. Call me a pushover: I am ready to befriend anyone. (Try me again if, inadvertently, I have ever ignored your request in the past...
...friends blame the media and the economy for McCain's loss, while former aides grumble about Palin and the general embarrassment she engendered for the GOP. By all accounts, McCain - who declined to include Palin on a list of potential 2012 candidates during a Tonight Show appearance in April - is dreading what Palin might say in Going Rogue, her book due out next month. "The part I'm looking forward to most is the part where it energized our campaign and her selection put us ahead in the polls," McCain told a crowd at a recent Washington conference. "The part...
...advice to aspiring writers: "Turn off the charm ... get rid of your piffling similes ... eat meat, drink blood." (The Times, April...
...Angeles Angels head into the American League playoffs, they will be remembering a lost teammate: pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, who died on April 9, only four days into the season, after pitching six scoreless innings in his season debut. He and two friends were killed after their car was hit by a van that ran a red light. The team paid tribute to Adenhart when they clinched their division championship last week. But the team was also aware of another, quieter triumph, perhaps a miracle. Indeed, Jon Wilhite, the fourth person in Adenhart's car, shouldn't be alive...
Zero-tolerance policies for violent, drug-related or otherwise unacceptable behavior grew out of federal mandates for education-funding in the early 1990s. The horrific slaughter at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, reinforced the rigid policies. In Texas, according to a state legislative study, some 144,000 students were sent to DAEP or juvenile-justice alternative education facilities in 2007; 25% of them had disabilities, and minorities made up 65% of the DAEP students and 73% of the juvenile-justice students. Violations ranged from sharing illegal substances or bringing weapons to school to engaging...