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...annals of great British kid lit. Now all those good reads have a home: Seven Stories, the Centre for the Children's Book, officially opens Aug. 19 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "There's never been anything like it before," says Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. "For the first time, this country will have a properly organized and dedicated collection relating to children's literature." Even better, it's a groovy place for authors and their young fans to interact. The idea was hatched in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1996 by Mary Briggs, Newcastle...
...later the hem had fallen. And over time Benedict found his office's public aspect an increasingly comfortable fit. His smile offset the famous dark circles beneath his eyes. Eventually he was tolerating such photo ops as a public cell-phone conversation with an ailing nun and the donning of a fire fighter's hat. "He'll never be a celebrity," says a Vatican official who has worked closely with Ratzinger. "But he seems more joyful and sure of himself." Ratzinger's brother was once worried that the job might harm his health. On the contrary, asserts Walter Cardinal Kaspar...
...kitchen he looks down into his mother's eyes and thinks, Why is this woman giving me orders? I love her, but I'm bigger than she is. That perplexes him because he still needs her so much. Boys, like girls, are having a lot of dark nights of the soul in which they see how disappointing adults can be and how unjust society is, but they may not be able to put their fears into words, or they do not want to because it makes them feel weak...
Many people view school as a cruel, dark place where the teachers are out to get you--its sole purpose is to make your life a living hell. In some ways, that's true. There are certainly too many cruel people and comments that follow me around. With all the teasing, I often turned to my favorite class, English, taught by the amazing Joel Ronkin. That was the one place at school where I could express myself, through writing...
...President said, but by then we had been watching the endless video of what looked like the shooting stars of August, knowing that those bright white puffs of star were made of metal and rubber and men and women. Like other fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while it felt like an attack on the calm of this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks...