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...choosing teaching as a second career. At Chamblee, Loper is just one of more than a dozen teachers who have left other careers. Among his colleagues, there are an ex-paralegal, ex-talent agent, ex-chef, ex-engineer, ex-international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says. "They respect...
...hard to imagine the enjoyment and job satisfaction experienced by Loper and Horton and to see oneself teaching some fascinating subject. But in fact it's hard--often very hard--to become a teacher. So before you quit your present job, ask yourself some practical questions...
...candidate was in his pork rinds mode: An exuberant populist condescension used to overwhelm Bush's WASPiness around election time and dispatch him on missions of good-natured political slumming. He sang along to country music. In every public square, he hammered away at big, cheap themes: 1) Willie Horton, the Black Monster on Furlough; 2) Read My Lips, No New Taxes; and 3) Uncouth Radicals Want to Burn Your Flag...
...HORTON HEARS A HOOCHIE Tupac Shakur and Dr. Seuss are the kings of postmortem product. Seuss's ninth posthumous book shipped last week; Shakur is on his fifth beyond-the-grave album. How do they stack...
Every time Bradley tries to take a shot in return, he finds Team Gore there to block it. He accused Gore of introducing Willie Horton into politics in 1988, only to find that the Vice President had none other than his old rival Michael Dukakis on hand to vouch that it hadn't been Gore's idea to put the racial tinge on the issue of prison furloughs but the Republicans'. When the former New Jersey Senator raised Gore's 1985 Senate vote against Bradley's antitobacco amendment, the Vice President's campaign called him desperate and made it stick...