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...sound of shuffling feet announces her entrance as dozens of youngsters rise from their seats to chant in unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years...
...said she tried to include a scene with a couple “all tangled up” on a bench, but her editors thought it was “too suggestive...
Family and friends of Colono and Pring-Wilson sat on the same bench as lawyers for both sides argued over the terminology to describe the cuts in Colono’s jacket, finally settling on “defects...
Harvard’s dominating performance came with Ogbechie, the Crimson’s kills per game leader, sitting on the bench and Schweitzer, the team’s overall kills leader, recording a negative hitting percentage...
When it comes to presidential politics, there is no SUV. We all surrender our headsets and consoles and pile into a 1964 Chrysler with bench seats and no drink holders and one radio. And we have forgotten how we ever managed to ride in this damn thing without murdering one another. "I'm driving this car," says Papa George, "and I say we're listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half...