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...When Jonathan Schnur was in grade school, he never lobbed spitballs or did the things that land kids in the principal's office. In fact, as a third-grader in suburban Milwaukee, Wis., he was mentoring kindergartners. Today Schnur, 38, remains dedicated to education. In 2000, Schnur and four colleagues founded New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), now the largest organization in the U.S. for recruiting and training urban principals. The group seeks candidates from all walks of life, from executives to military officers. "The most important thing we look for," says Schnur, "is an unyielding belief that any child...
...finally forced the Ukrainians to unite to become a nation," he said. But that unity was not in evidence last week, and it may still turn out to be an impossible dream. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Helen Gibson/ London, Valeria Korchagina/ Moscow, Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris
...have great, funky, unclassifiable writers like Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Susanna Clarke and David Mitchell. And like Chabon, who in addition to writing The Final Solution has edited an anthology of hybrid highbrow-lowbrow tales, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Vintage; 328 pages). And like Jonathan Lethem, who has just published Men and Cartoons (Doubleday; 160 pages), a collection of highly literary stories about, among other things, superheroes...
...addresses its budget shortfall--well, we may just escape this jam without a scratch. That's a lot of ifs. But, thankfully, everyone has something at stake. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/ Little Rock, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Matt Forney/ Beijing, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Peter Gumbel and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris, Eric Roston/Washington, Michael Schuman/Hong Kong, Joe Szczesny/ Detroit, Charles P. Wallace/Berlin and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago...
When Turnbull moved into Thayer in 1967, he immediately stood against the grain, according to his roommate Jonathan K. Walters...