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...stripped of pro-Saddam propaganda. Iraqi Education Ministry officials can't rewrite everything before school starts in September, but they're fixing what they can. Some items slated for pruning: Exercises like this, from a sixth-grade Arabic textbook: "Add not to the following sentence: 'The Iranians are brave.'" Questions like this, from a second-grade textbook: "Who leads our great revolution?" Answer: "The person we are ready to sacrifice our lives for: Saddam Hussein, may God protect Him." Math exercises that use S and H, not X and Y, as variables. Geography books that say, "Before the Baath Revolution...
...much that I don’t want them to die. What I cannot respect is the cowardly politicians who lied to and deceived Congress, Parliament and the public. The governments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush committed the ultimate atrocity by sending brave boys like Kelan to die, to protect their countries from dangers that were never really there...
...nonsense approach. "When I first started this program in 1998, people thought I was aggressive and rude," recalls the former business journalist whose bookish appearance belies his swaggering on-air demeanor. "But within a few months, people were ringing to tell me that now they think I am brave and sincere...
...shift is for the early birds, the ones brave enough to leave their desks with everyone watching. They scamper into the elevators and hold the “close door” button to conceal the liberated smile on their faces...
...Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind of thing that led Harvard to randomize House assignments in the first place. But Harry’s fifth year at school seems particularly familiar...