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...Bridget Dukes watched through a chain link fence as her son, 8-year-old Joshua Omar Johnson, lined up with other fourth graders beneath an archway of blue and white balloons. She had doubted that New Orleans schools would be able to accommodate all the returning children like Joshua, who spent last year in school in Baton Rouge. Those doubts have been put to rest, she said...
...Officers were dispatched to Adams House E entryway to respond to a report of a group of individuals making an arch in the entryway using balloons. The officers arrived and spoke with the individuals in question and advised them to leave the archway alone. 3:54 a.m.—An officer was dispatched to University Health Services in response to a report of an individual causing a disturbance. The officers arrived and reported that the individual was being cooperative and would be spending the night. Dec. 19: 11:09 a.m.—An officer observed an individual...
...rests on a statue of the goddess Padmavathi Devi at the Tiruchanur Shrine in South India. Anantha Padmanaban, a partner of NAC Jewellers, proudly shows off a photo album full of snapshots of the work his shop has done for other Hindu shrines: a gold-plated archway for the temple at Guruvayur, a silver crown for the god Kubera at Badrinath, and gold and silver ornamentation for numerous other temples. All through India, Padmanaban says, famous temples are replacing the silver plating on their idols with gold, and smaller shrines are replacing copper deities with silver ones. "People in India...
...recruiting seems to offer a golden-plated archway to endless riches, but I can tell you it has more than its fair share of annoyances. For one, attending three to five hours of meetings each night for several weeks is pretty intolerable. It’s even worse when you have to watch people you once respected grovel at the feet of first-year analysts at these companies, salivating like rabid dogs and pouncing at the first sliver of a business card emerging from their target’s pocket. Collecting that business card is all important because it means...
...streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when it had last hosted the Games. The shot putters paraded on the field beneath the same archway as did the ancient Olympians. "It was awesome to walk into the stadium," said U.S. competitor John Godina. The shot putters had the 15,000 spectators all to themselves. For once they were the stars, not just a sideshow in the track-and-field circus. The 10-hour event...