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During the last meeting of the academic year, the Council narrowly voted 15-13 to begin a 16-month effort to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mt. Auburn St. property for use as a student community center...
...child a stalk of a fragrant flower. The principal raises a microphone and calls all of the kids into rows, regimented by grades. Then, at exactly the same time across the country, an official strikes a metal plate with a small hammer, the aural signal for the year to begin. The kids pass under a Koran and into their new classrooms, redolent with the smoky swirl of burning esfand, a fragrant herb for warding off bad spirits...
...remember grappling with similar questions as an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C. Three days into the new school year, Sept. 11 occurred, ending school before it could begin. We asked ourselves, What would we tell the kids when they come back? How do we explain ourselves? We found that the answers lay in the ordinary - and the kids were learning the lessons even before we taught them. Teachers acknowledged what had happened, then carried on with the school year as soon as possible. The kids were ahead of the adults. (See pictures of Iranian society...
...begin with an analysis of the schools that didn't really deserve to land a spot on the list. To preface this segment, we'd like to clarify that FlyBy holds itself to the strictest standards of urbandictionary.com style, which generally classify a "douchebag" as a "pretentious, sugar-coated" type of "asshole." GQ seems to have expanded the lexicon for the word to anyone who fits a semi-humorous stereotype its editors have concocted. We respectfully disagree with this method, and thus reject the top-25 ranking of these schools...
...begin with an analysis of the schools that didn't really deserve to land a spot on the list. To preface this segment, we'd like to clarify that FlyBy holds itself to the strictest standards of urbandictionary.com style, which generally classify a "douchebag" as a "pretentious, sugar-coated" type of "asshole." GQ seems to have expanded the lexicon for the word to anyone who fits a semi-humorous stereotype its editors have concocted. We respectfully disagree with this method, and thus reject the top-25 ranking of these schools...