Word: hurtfulness
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...caught, and now Ngugi only goes back to attend their trial. Yet he still hopes to move back one day. He's comforted by the support of his fellow Kenyans. "They come up close to us on the street and start apologizing," he says, "as if they themselves were hurt by the attack." And he's reassured by the current government under President Mwai Kibaki. "I don't see people being imprisoned, exiled or killed for speaking their differences of opinion. That is a ray of light." For now, though, he's staying in California to teach and wait...
Still, there's good news. The central contention of my 2003 story was that the SAT's shift from an abstract-reasoning test to a test of classroom material like Algebra II would hurt kids from failing schools. I was worried that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children--those from families earning less than $20,000 a year--improved their SAT performance this year. It was a modest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump in scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an impressive...
...troubles--$1,500 a month for damages and $400 a year in royalties for their fractional share of mineral rights. But the checks do little to restore Eathorne's sense of peace. "Until the oil companies came along, we thought it was our land," he says. "It wouldn't hurt my feelings if they just went away...
...Papale understands that, too. He also understands how appealing the new female barkeep (Elizabeth Banks) is - the hesitant romance of these two recently hurt people is very nicely managed in the film. But Papale also knows what his fans can only dimly imagine, which is just how big and fast and hard-hitting professional football players are, and he can't afford distractions. All he has to throw at the big guys - who do not exactly welcome him to their locker room - is heart: the ability to recover from their hits and keep on charging down the field. He spends...
...Bush may be getting a slight uptick in his job-approval numbers, the situation in Iraq and Lebanon has been a setback in the war on terrorism, Americans say. According to a new TIME poll, 54% of those surveyed said the U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq has hurt America's standing in the war on terrorism, vs. 40% who feel it has helped. U.S. handling of the conflict between Hizbollah and Israel has caused harm as well, said 51%, vs. 29% who said it has had a positive effect. The Bush Administration does not have "a clear...