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...throwing verbal bombs as well. "I'm not The Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says in a mock whine. "I feel like I'm in high school. Suck it up, this is politics." More to the point, "This...
...past a certain point it feels like being ordered to eat the peas. So at West Side High School in Gary, Ind., school officials let a transgendered teen named Kevin Logan come to school in drag every day. He's a popular boy who performs with the girls on drill team. But last weekend, when Kevin showed up at the prom in a slinky fuschia dress, he was barred from entry by the principal. They already had a rule that boys can't wear dresses to the prom. Kevin's classmates were angry. But much of the country is siding...
...filming in December. In the show’s final installment, “Team Hippie”—as co-stars and fans tagged Averell and Macniven for their bohemian outfits and lighthearted attitude—traveled from Japan to Alaska, where they raced to drill ice-fishing holes, and finally arrived in Denver, Colo., where they had to arrange a set of national flags in the order in which they had visited the countries. On Wednesday night, Betty Averell joined her son, all his fellow contestants, and a select group of his friends for a viewing...
...Kurdish militia against Saddam Hussein's forces. He was jailed seven times since the age of 14 and saw a favorite uncle executed. Now, at 32, he is perfecting an entirely new skill that could change this region as much as have the wars in which he has fought: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 9 m aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades - by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where...
...make to help those kids.” Walser also said that she was worried about the pressure that testing has on schools. “A lot of the downsides of the MCAS system is that it...encourages quick fixes, like what we call the ‘drill and kill’ ways to impart knowledge,” she said. “In this rush for accountability, I think it’s easy to forget that we need to make sure that what we’re doing is actually effective.” Mary...