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...respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Communities that have fought for years have laid down their weapons. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply teaching the three Rs; they are also nation-building. Julia M. Bolz, Founder Journey with an Afghan School, SEATTLE...
...engine guzzles a lot of gas. But the car is used very little, only for occasional necessary short trips and the odd journey for recreational purposes. The advice I'd received from green experts is that it's preferable to keep an old car going for as long as possible. Each new car requires energy and materials to produce, equivalent to some 15% of the total lifetime emissions of a car in regular...
...There's another twist, I tell her. I live inside the congestion charging zone, so will be expected to pay $50 every time I take the car out of the garage on a weekday. That's almost the cost of a minicab journey to Heathrow. Or a pizza dinner. I'll have to swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably...
...faculty’s top office has had four different occupants in the last three years. In his e-mail announcing Scalise’s appointment, Smith cited the Athletic Director’s administrative experience. The new responsibilities mark another leg in a decades-long professional journey during which Scalise has occupied a variety of positions all over the University. An alumnus of Brown, Scalise received both All-American and All-Ivy honors in lacrosse and set the record for number of goals scored in a single game—11, as a senior in 1971. He came...
...Homecoming,” I had decided that it was time to return to the original hero’s journey.But what makes “Homecoming” such a compelling read is its contestation of the very idea of a Homerian journey. Must a hero’s journey end with a homecoming? Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel—at times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer...