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...made everything ourselves. It wasn’t just Granny—my mother did too. Snack day in elementary school warranted a night of baking. My classmates brought bagged popcorn or Saltines, but my mother started the night before. She baked bread, mixed flour, yeast, milk, and eggs in her large silver bowl. My snack day became so anticipated in Mrs. Reynolds’s class that kids would talk about it days in advance. My mother never knew, nor I suspect minded, that other kids brought store-bought popcorn...
...what was required of him and more. The righty threw 6 1/3 stellar innings of four-hit ball, giving up just two runs on a homer by the Huskies’ Ryan Kemp in the top of the third and keeping Harvard within reach.“It brought back memories of last year when he was keeping guys off base,” Walsh said. “He was mixing—his fastball was tough because he was getting breaking balls over.”But while the sophomore Nutter kept the Crimson alive, the day belonged...
...sector jobs due to the economic crisis could also push students toward the public sector.Seizing on these economic and social forces, the Office of Career Advancement has stepped up its efforts to promote public service, according to Hessler, the Office’s director. Since last fall, it has brought in more career discussion panels and career fairs related to public service. Hessler says it has strengthened its connections with the World Bank, the United Nations, the U.S. government, and public sector consulting firms.Students have established a fall and spring “Day of Service” each semester...
Then again, that's democracy, hombre. If Mexican voters were right to oust the PRI nine years ago, who's to say they're wrong if they resuscitate the party this summer? We've seen this phenomenon before - like Walesa's Poland, where democracy's early disappointments brought former communists back to power in the 1990s. But democracy survived there, and the communist-era holdovers were forced to govern more from the center. They were defeated in the 2005 presidential election, and today the country has a center-right President, much like Calderon...
...Muslims, fear that such a stance will not go down well with the Indian electorate. Modi may be trying to make himself more acceptable to a wider audience. Since the Gujarat elections of 2007, Modi has been trying to paint himself as the able administrator who has brought progress and prosperity to Gujarat. The Supreme Court ruling will make it harder to keep that message pristine...