Word: batons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach. They not only passed the strictest anti- abortion law adopted by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
When the TFA recruits' training ends in August, 233 of them will remain in Los Angeles. The rest will take positions in New York City, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, La., and rural districts in North Carolina and Georgia. These are all districts that permit the hiring of teachers without an education degree. TFA participants will receive salaries from $18,000 to $29,000 and be allowed to defer any federal student-loan repayments until the end of service...
...homeroom teacher would put in charge of the class when she had to leave the room. But the I.R.A. is never far from his mind and suffuses nearly everything ! he does. Chuckie delivers the pro-I.R.A. Republican News on his paper route and twirls a baton at the head of an Irish Republican marching band. I.R.A. men in the neighborhood all know him. Chuckie comes from a long line of I.R.A. fighters, from his grandfather, who fought the British in the 1930s, to four of his five uncles. He is entrusted with small errands -- delivering a message, watching police...
Residents of Louisiana's "cancer alley" -- the 120-km (75-mile) stretch of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is lined with 136 petrochemical plants and refineries -- have learned to endure choking fumes, stunted gardens, contaminated crayfish and abnormally high rates of cancer and other ills. But with help from Janice Dickerson, of the New Orleans-based Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, they are no longer suffering in silence...
...from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig he led as many as 90 performances a year, including a healthy dollop of new music, mostly commissioned from East German composers. Says Masur: "I always told our audiences, 'You read not only Goethe and Schiller but contemporary writers as well, so you should expect the same...