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With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfy purple-dragon rug in a back-corner nook, the library at San Diego's Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books...
...Vargalas alone, a result of his deep pathology: “When discovered, ‘They’ immediately change tactics… It’s impossible to surround ‘Them,’ to trap ‘Them’ in a corner, to push ‘Them’ up against the wall—it’s ‘They’ who surround you, who hold you in a siege like a live castle, whose walls, alas, are pathetically weak.”In this city of walking...
...secured area but had no indication as to exactly how the ceremony was progressing. At noon I heard, “open them up again.” I removed my coat, passed first in line through a metal detector, received a pat down, and sprinted around a corner to encounter a cheering crowd standing along 1st Street, with thousands in front and millions behind. Finding a spot amongst the craning necks, I could just begin to focus on the dignitaries on the Capitol steps as Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Chief Justice of the United States John...
...Georgetown University. "The GOP is gambling here that the stimulus does not work, and they can make big gains in 2010. Given the sticky economy, that is certainly a possibility," Wilcox said. "But all it took for Ronald Reagan in 1984 was for the economy to turn the corner, and he was re-elected easily...
...were held up by police at a corner, and while we bounced on our toes impatiently, a motorcade turned past us. Inside a black Escalade sat the new first family. They waved. We waved. And as the car drove onwards, bound for the Miley Cyrus concert, everyone on the corner hugged each other in shock, laughing and crying and screaming, “I can’t believe...