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...would withdraw most of its 5-10,000 combat personnel from the kingdom. Al-Qaeda may be taking advantage of that highly publicized announcement to start attacking targets inside Saudi Arabia, in order to create the impression that they are driving the Americans out, in the way that Hezbollah drove the Israelis out of Lebanon. They can't make that claim if they didn't fire a shot. But a series of attacks before the Americans carry out their planned withdrawal will be used in al-Qaeda propaganda to claim a victory. Also, the American withdrawal may have given...
Teachers, like librarians and bank tellers, weren't always primarily female. Men tended to fill those jobs until poor pay, low prestige and small chance for advancement drove them out. Today, just 9% of teachers in elementary and middle schools are men, down from 18% in 1981. The absence of male role models in the classroom concerns educators, parents and policymakers. "When men teach children, people think they couldn't make it in another industry," says Bryan Nelson, director of MenTeach, an advocacy group. That's changing with recruitment programs like Call Me Mister in South Carolina, which focuses...
...role to make the mother feel bad about things she hasn't done enough, as well as things she simply hasn't done. So the day of the next Brownie meeting, Mom got to the office early, rushed through her tasks, then made an excuse and left. She drove across town like Sandra Bullock in Speed. Arriving at the Brownie meeting, Mom sat down and basked for a few moments in a glow of satisfaction. It was then that she noticed the Brownie leader looking at her. "It's lovely to see you, Mrs. Johnson," the woman said. "But maybe...
...were trying to leave Yuhuan county that local officials blocked the mountainous road and told us we needed to undergo a physical, since we were outsiders who could be carrying SARS. But instead of taking us to the hospital, the police drove us to the local Foreign Affairs Office, where 16 officials representing every department from the local public-security bureau to the local propaganda office had gathered. After the drinking marathon proved ineffective, they took us to a conference room for formal interrogation. The procedure was videotaped, with a woman on loan from the local TV station holding...
...Mann drove in the Crimson’s only other run in the sixth on a double to right field that scored Farkes. Farkes had doubled to open the inning, and a Salsgiver groundout pushed him to third with one out. But Lentz lined Quillian’s next pitch right into the shortstop’s glove, limiting the amount of damage Harvard could do before Princeton’s big inning...