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...Dave Perry himself arrived near the end, and Chaz Scoggins as well. Afterwards, Bruce Robinson, whom I?ve been tight with since kindergarten, joined Chaz and me for a couple of rounds at a nearby Irish pub. None of us knew for sure if the Schilling thing would work, but as Bruce said: ?Spices it up.? We talked about old times, ?back when the Sox were losers,? and remarked how times change. We discussed, at some length, that morning?s bombings in London, and said the unoriginal thing: ?What a world...
...would put me in jail. Fitzgerald counseled me that he wanted me to answer completely but didn't want to force any answers on me or have me act as if I remembered things more clearly than I did. "If I show you a picture of your kindergarten teacher and it really refreshes your memory, say so," he said. "If it doesn't, don't say yes just because I show you a photo of you and her sitting together...
...Jennings, Kans., students from kindergarten through high school total about 30 in a single building. Next year only the elementary grades will remain; Grade 6 and up will be bused some 30 miles to Oberlin or Hoxie. It's expected that the younger kids will be bused away as well. "It's beyond fighting," says Sharon Hickert, a loan officer at the Jennings Bank. The bank and a café are the last businesses on the strip. "We've seen a heckuva decline in the 12 years that I've been here...
...taking a toll on Iraq's citizens. While most maintain a remarkable resilience in the face of the suffering, there is also a growing sense of bitterness. Hamid, for instance, used to be a wedding singer and hopes one day to become a kindergarten music teacher; it has been months since we last heard him sing. Iraqis who work for foreign companies, especially American ones, are in double jeopardy--branded as traitors and infidels by terrorist groups and identified as lucrative targets by kidnapping gangs. A year ago, we would have accompanied this article with a picture of our Baghdad...
...with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place him in a nursing home or consign him to day care at a senior citizens' center: "O.K., we got three possibilities. We got exile in Great Neck. We got Devil's Island. And we got kindergarten. All rejected...