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...commendation Mulligan has earned. She's as yet unknown to the mass American audience: she had a small, unremarkable role in this summer's Public Enemies, and will be seen in December with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire in Brothers. Yet she seems assured of a career breakthrough and an Oscar nomination for An Education, both because she's at the center of this appealing movie from first to last and because, through her craft and force of personality, she exudes the sorcerer's ability to make the camera and the audience adore her. (See pictures of Oscar...
...time seemed easier than getting a party form signed, and just like that I was destined for Kirkland. Moving in this fall was admittedly ridiculous. My storage boxes were plastered with three separate Houses’ identification stickers. I assumed my fourth and final mailing address of my college career. For the first time since freshman year, I was living in a common room. But re-adjusting yet another time was beyond worth it. Kirkland welcomed me, as the other Houses had, with open arms, and by now I feel like I’ve lived there forever. Any Matherites...
After 30 years in the military, Roosevelt Dickerson wasn't looking for a new career challenge. A retired Air Force chief master sergeant, he took some small-time jobs here and there for a few years - nothing too strenuous, nothing too taxing. Then he got a call from his old boss, the Defense Department, asking if he would be interested in trying one of the most strenuous, taxing jobs around: teaching. They wanted to know if he would consider joining the Troops to Teachers (TTT) program, which helps place former military personnel in U.S. classrooms. As Dickerson, 57, recalls...
...soon enough, appeals to his patriotism convinced Dickerson, and for the past three years, he has taught special-education classes at Denver's East High School. He is just one of the thousands of older, second-career military retirees (the average age at first hire is 44) whom the program has channeled into the teaching profession. But as successful as the 15-year-old program has been, supporters say it needs to enlarge its talent pool in order to attract the waves of younger troops returning from hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan and making the not-always-easy...
...least six years of active duty. Many of the more than 11,000 men and women who have participated in the program are nontraditional first-time teachers, middle-aged former officers, sailors, soldiers and Marines who hope to parlay their skills into a very different kind of service career. And it's not just their unorthodox experience that distinguishes them from the majority of their new colleagues; compared with the rest of the American teaching pool, TTT participants are more diverse in several important ways...