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...summer he turned ten, Chuckie came upon three teenagers in ski masks hijacking a plumber's van. He impulsively flung himself into the back of the truck; after the hijackers crashed the van and set it on fire, Chuckie helped pour gasoline on the wreck to make it burn faster. He was operating in strict accordance with I.R.A. guidelines, but his smile betrays his outrageous good fortune. "They let ya burn...
...flamboyant rabble-rousers, the Rev. Al Sharpton. Inflammatory press coverage added to the heat. When the first two Bensonhurst youths charged with the killing went on trial separately in state supreme court on April 16, apprehension gripped the city. Not-guilty verdicts, blustered Sharpton, would be "telling us to burn the town down...
...attract doctors to the specialty. The regular, albeit high-stress, hours are appealing, as is the chance to see a wide variety of ailments. "I think generally people see what goes on down here as either stress or excitement," says Dr. Bourland. "Those who interpret it as stress burn out, and those who see it as excitement...
...none of this is enough to suggest that we should simply burn our books and flood the classroom with TV monitors. Just because an infant cannot speak, we do not talk to him entirely in "goos" and "aahs"; rather, we coax him, gradually, into speech, and then into higher and more complex speech. That, in fact, is the definition of education: to draw out, to teach children not what they know but what they do not know; to rescue them, as Cicero had it, from the tyranny of the present. The problem with visuals is not just that they bombard...
...blame it on the racial thing . . . why don't you just get out. We'd all be a lot happier." Members of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Kansas found a letter taped to the door. "Jew-Boy get out," it said. "I'm going to burn your Torah...