Word: giroux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
School officials suspended the student for two days for "violating the directions of school administrators," after he ignored warnings to avoid "verbal contact" with Hindy, said Bert Giroux, public relations officer for the school...
Ellen Al-Weqayan said her daughter filed another complaint Monday when a substitute teacher made negative comments about her last name and heritage. Giroux said that the substitute teacher would not be hired until the matter had been investigated...
...Giroux said that school officials, anticipating misunderstandings that might arise among students in response to Operation Desert Storm, prepared and distributed packets of information about the Persian Gulf situation that "stressed multi-cultural understanding of the people from that area." The packets contained workshops entitled "If You Were a Saudi Kid" and "The Islamic Religion...
SHREK! by William Steig (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At 83, cartoonist Steig is still among the very young at art. His latest work follows the adventures of a creature so gruesome that snakes get poisoned when they bite him. But fate is kind: one bad day he meets the most hideous princess in the kingdom, and they live horribly ever after. Just what he wanted -- and so will any reader who appreciates the flip side of a classic fairy tale...
...PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The loser of Peru's presidential election returns to his typewriter with a sexy novel that proves the brain is also an erogenous zone...