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...beginning was the letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...
...died in a setting straight out of his music, soaring over the mountains, sea and sky before his brand-new experimental plane crashed Sunday in picturesque Monterey...
This is school? Kindness is an ancient virtue, but the idea of formally teaching six- and seven-year-olds to give compliments in an inner-city public school is brand-new. In New Haven all students from kindergarten through high school take part in the district's Social Development Program, which weaves "emotional learning" exercises--like the ball-rolling game--into the fabric of an ordinary school day. School officials say problem-solving and stress-management skills are as essential as literature and long division to a '90s education. "We believe it needs to be comprehensive, just like science...
SONY'S OLD IDEA GETS A BRAND-NEW SOUND...
Lastly, the characterization of these students as "averse to modern people" is unfounded. What these students object to is not modernity, but the relatively brand-new policies which force all first and second-year students to live in co-ed dormitories with virtually no guidelines for modest speech or conduct...