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...northeastern England and spoke with a group of parents out of camera range. A mother asked whether a Labour government would fund a badly needed special-education teacher at her son's school. The easy answer--the Clinton answer--would have been yes. Blair looked the mom in the eye and expressed sympathy. Then he asked her to understand that resources are limited and that not even a Labour government, which will make education its top priority, can do everything. No, he said, he would not promise her a new teacher. If the man who probably will be Prime Minister...
Jennifer Dore, 20, Damaso's volunteer tutor, has her eye on him. She'll let him have his fun for a few more minutes. But there is no way Damaso will dodge his homework. Dore, a sophomore communications major at Villanova University, which is half an hour and a billion miles away in the wealthy Main Line, travels to inner-city Philadelphia once a week with seven of her classmates. When their van pulls up to the three-story row house that is headquarters for the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, kids storm out to hug the visitors...
Grumpy might have been safer. Old Country Jews believed that acknowledging good fortune would attract an evil eye, a kineahora. Roth brings this useful superstition home when, as a teenager, the Merry Levov contracts a lethal case of '60s political self-righteousness. She blows up the town's general store-post office, killing a passerby, and then vanishes...
...falling. ?We could see things coming down on us,? Klaver said. ?We were all disoriented.? Michael Norfleet, a Marine fighter pilot, told of parking in front of the building moments before the explosion, a few cars ahead of the Ryder truck. When the bomb went off ?it filleted my eye,? Norfleet recalled. Stumbling down six flights of stairs, now blind in his right eye and covered with deep lacerations, Norfleet found his way out of the rubble by following the trail of another victim?s blood, losing nearly half of his own by the time medical rescue workers...
...hasn't earned a sou for LVMH in 10 years. That may change soon; his very young Bazar line is breaking into the black. Lacroix, whose atelier is the only one Arnault started from scratch, is a sharp observer of his boss: "He needs to be convinced in his eye and his mind--it is essential." As to Arnault the businessman, Lacroix echoes the common opinion: "He loves the new, he loves to astonish and to be first with something. If it means clearing the land to make a new garden, then he'll chop away. And he loves...