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...teach for the test." Even in North Carolina, whose soaring scores earned accolades in Clinton's State of the Union address, some teachers tailor upwards of 80% of their lessons to the test, according to a University of North Carolina survey. "Teachers must go way beyond textbook instruction," says Felicita Santiago, principal of a Brooklyn public elementary school, where teachers came in an hour before school to help kids get ready for the exam. "Preparing for the test is a whole shift in methods of instruction...
...have a little bit of everything," says assistant curator Felicita C. D'Escrivian. "We have a very good cephalopod collection and the trilobites are very, very good," she adds...
...Puerto Rican American of Negro blood, has had six husbands. Junior, her sixth, is 19. Fernandá's youngest daughter Cruz is 18. She is currently estranged from her third husband, but not to the point of refusing him occasional access to her favors. Felicita and Soledad, two other daughters of Fernanda's, are whores. They are also good mothers, although somewhat unconventional: the lullabies that soothe Felicita's children would redden a longshoreman's ears. Fernanda's only son, Simplicio, 21, ran away from home at six and became a father...
...name is Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Margherita Ludovica Felicita Gennara di Savoia. The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, antipopes, French and Belgian princesses, Italian and Balkan nobility and kings of lands as widely separated as Spain and Cyprus and England. Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her age whose father had been an army private...
Born. To Princess Marie-José of Piedmont, and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy; their third child, a daughter; in Naples. Name: Maria Gabriella Gennaro Adelaide Adelgonda Giuseppina Felicita Margherita. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10 oz. Her maternal grandmother is Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...