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...just past six on the cold morning of Sept. 29 when the dark green Mitsubishi Pajero off-roader pulled up at the back of Russborough House, a Palladian mansion outside the town of Blessington in County Wicklow, Ireland. At least three men wearing balaclavas and hooded sweatshirts affixed a plank to the back of the vehicle to turn it into a makeshift battering ram, then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls...
...Under the Pitons, for example, an Irishman named Blessington embarks on a Caribbean drug run that proves more terrifying than he could have imagined. His French partner seems headed toward paranoid violence. Worse still is Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their...
...Eight-to-ten year teachers have been the prime targets in the cuts so far," she says. Many more recently hired teachers are kept on because they are specially qualified--for alternative programs or because of affirmative action, Blessington says...
...Blessington terms herself a believer in alternative education--"parents should have that kind of choice," she said. But she adds, "We might not be able to continue all alternative programs with 2 1/2 and the federal budget cuts expected...
...Blessington says Superintendent William Lannon must meet with the masters to make many decisions--most importantly on curriculum changes and hiring and firing policy. "The masters of the individual schools will know best who to fire or to keep on," Blessington added...