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...There's always a hesitation with team-building," says Pat Whelan, a corporate-bonding veteran who is working with PIU to run the courses in several states. But the childishness of the exercises, he adds, is the point. "When you were a kid, you didn't have to like all the other kids you played with. You just played." PIU's activities, he says, sure beat the trust-building exercise one company asked him to run using a plank between two hot-air balloons. He declined...
Reading Barthelme, you'd think he crawled from the steaming wreckage of an asteroid that originated in the outer solar system. In fact, he grew up in Houston. Born in 1931, the son of an influential architect, he was a good-looking, headstrong kid with ironic eyebrows like circumflex marks. He was restless and rebarbative, full of jittery, sarcastic energy and the kind of confidence that forms only around a tiny seed of insecurity. After experimenting with college, journalism and marriage in Houston, he got sick of the provinces and lit out for New York City...
Terry Grier, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, says his district needs a cash influx now. "There are schools in our district that don't even have nurses on certain days," says Grier, whose district includes Hage Elementary School and its shuttered stacks. "If a kid skins his elbow, a teacher has to take time out of her lesson to dust him off, clean him up and put on a Band...
Well, I'm always hopeful. I think this is a great country, and we have a great Constitution. We have, as you know, severe challenges. The recession we're in is the worst I've seen since the Great Depression. I was a kid during the Great Depression, it was a terrible time. Now, is it the same? No. Are there parallels? Yes. Are the parallels scary? You darn...
...entering the House chamber through the East door. It was the biggest door I had ever gone through. It also was the biggest chamber I had ever seen. Remember, I was six years of age. I had never been in a place like this. I was a working-class kid from a Polish neighborhood in Detroit, and this was quite an event for me. I've only begun in later years to appreciate what it all meant...