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...Humboldt Park, for instance, seventh-graders have worked with the third-graders to write letters to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "The older grades become mentors and tutors to the younger kids, giving them a sense of responsibility that may not happen in middle school," says Milwaukee parent Tina Johnson, who has two kids in a K-8 school. "All these raging hormones are kind of directed in a positive way." Some administrators believe there are fewer behavior problems in K-8s, where your old first-grade teacher--and her current pupils--are watching. Says Humboldt Park student Savannah Bracero...
...consummate military man who oversaw the buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 1964-68 and was later vilified for it; in Charleston, South Carolina. The strapping West Point graduate led battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White House and public about...
...called Tanna's chiefs together and predicted the coming of new and strange objects and ideas. "He said there is a big boat coming, a plane and the icebox, the truck, and this place will be different," says senior man Johnson Kuanu. Some new things, he told them, would be good, including parts of Christianity, and some bad. "He said we had to be careful." Along a winding track leading from the banyan, a wind-blown cliff looks down to where the forest surges to meet the sand. This is where John Frum is believed to have first appeared...
...weeks will. The crucial item to remember is: Twelve months ago the team was similarly scuffling at this point, and it wasn?t in first place. Tom Gordon was pitching well for the Yankees 12 months ago, not having yet burned out-as he will again this summer. Randy Johnson wasn?t really all that good on Saturday; he should have given up six earned in six innings. The loss of Wang is huge for the Yanks. They still haven?t solved center field...
...relation to the president, said that he has not seen Roberts since graduation. But he said he has many fond memories of life with the future nominee, which include playing Nerf football in their room and hearing Roberts endlessly quote the eighteenth-century literary critic Samuel Johnson...