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...Even before this meeting, relations between Abbas and Rice were frosty. A senior Palestine Liberation Organization official, who sat in on meetings between the two says: "She acts like a school headmistress, telling her student in a commanding tone to do this, or don't do that...
...real connection to Dulwich in London," says Tina Kanagaratnam, a Singaporean whose two U.S.-citizen children attend the Shanghai school. "It's not a question of just sticking the Dulwich name on a random school." When the school was faced with the double loss of its junior-school headmistress and senior-school headmaster last year, the London Dulwich shipped out an acting headmaster to replace them. There's no sign of Dulwich dialing back on its overseas expansion. The franchise owners - an education-management firm linked to Dulwich, London, by alumnus and two-time Thailand Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun - will...
...emerging in dialogue invented in the adaptation from J.K. Rowling’s text. Ron breathlessly justifies asking French Triwizard contestant Fleur Delacour to the dance: “She was walking. You know how I like it when they walk.” In a nighttime stroll, Beauxbatons headmistress Madame Maxine plucks something out of companion Hagrid’s beard and eats it, without skipping a beat in their conversation. And in perhaps the film’s funniest moment for Potterheads, the platonic Hermione-Krum relationship of the book is sullied with suggestions of snogging, when...
...country. Families, too, benefit, as children teach their parents what a healthy, well-balanced meal looks like. "When I go with my children to shop at the supermarket my daughter will look at the label and advise me what is and isn't healthy, and why," says Patricia Vanecloo, headmistress at St. Joan of Arc and mother of two students there...
...return for their help - and sometimes high fees - some parents want power. Ascham, an exclusive private girls' school in Sydney's east, endured a public row earlier in the year when a group of its high-flying parents demanded a greater say in the school council's choice of headmistress. Elsewhere, some teachers admit that when school captain/prefect elections are close, the candidate with the ubiquitous mother or father is more likely to get the nod. Parents who test teachers' nerves come in various types. Principals will often meet the demanding parent before the child is enrolled. This mother...