Word: duked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...role of government in private behavior and the choices people make as citizens and human beings.” Symonds emphasizes that these issues “are as relevant in current society as in 16th-century Vienna.” In order to enforce morality laws, the Duke of Vienna disguises himself. Shakespearean chaos ensues with plenty of comedic characters, including a nun, a Duke disguised as a monk, and a promiscuous lover. Of course there is plenty of personal drama wrapped up in mistaken identity and elaborate deceptions. Directed by Patrick Demers, a professional director, and assisted...
...script this time is that Dole is unscripted. I catch on after three people, including Dole herself, tell me how she jumped on a Harley to roar into an auditorium at Duke University, which, of course, was entirely scripted. The crowd is not terribly specific about why they like her, but they do love her. One says Dole is "so much like Jesse," another marvels at how Dole's "mother over there in Salisbury is 101 years old," while a white-haired gentleman gushes over "what a pretty lady she is." He puts a yellow PRIDE IN TOBACCO...
...because she rarely does. Any mention of three decades serving three Presidents and thawing Lean Cuisine for husband Senator Bob Dole at their Watergate apartment is drowned out by her frequent recital of local credentials in aresurgent drawl: her 1994 North Carolinian of the Year award, her degree from Duke and, of course, her mother, whose house she recently bought, making Dole the best kind of North Carolinian, a landowner. "My roots are deep. I've been here constantly," she says constantly, as if being graded on attendance...
...fare in these real-life laboratories will ultimately touch public schools in every corner of the U.S., offering examples to emulate or mistakes to avoid. As the experiment begins, TIME is following three individuals with a direct stake in the outcome: fifth-grade teacher Blakney, elementary-school principal Anita Duke andseventh-grade student Shaliah Denmark. All three will experience what happens when private hands buy the books, train the teachers and set the priorities. Each has her own degree of optimism about the promised reforms. TIME will return to them later in the school year for a report card...
...biggest change since Victory's arrival, says Perry, is in the school's once easy going principal. Duke, 52, is an administrator who spends her weekends painting the library walls and her nights poring over special-education paperwork, who patiently fields an early-morning parent phone call about the weather, saying, "It's nice out, but she might need a jacket." Before the take-over, says Perry, "She was a total softy. Not anymore." Whereas last year Duke often accepted excuses fortardiness or fighting, now she quickly doles out suspensions to troublemakers in the school's upper grades. The toughened...