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Directing is tough. It requires the tenacity of a marathoner, the strategy of a chess master, the people skills of a kindergarten teacher. That no one person possesses all these attributes hasn't stopped people from trying. Especially people like actors...
Cooper has always had a ferocious single-mindedness. In kindergarten, remembers her mother Patsy Ferrell, her teacher called home to complain that little Cynthia wanted to stay in and talk with the teachers during recess. At about the same age, Cooper became obsessed with getting a bike. But her parents felt she was too young and told her it was too expensive. Soon after, her mother found her hosing off her tricycle in the yard. She was planning to sell it so she could buy a two-wheeler. "You know, that was right pitiful, so we bought her the bike...
...class size amendment will force a dramatic transformation in Florida schools, which are struggling right now to teach the kids they have and rapidly taking in more. By 2010, the state must have no more than 18 kids in pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade classes, 22 in grades 4-8 and 25 in classes for grades 9-12. The state must also implement gradual reductions along the way. The idea is a noble one; after all there are Florida schools where 45 kids sit in one room, or five swollen classes meet in the gym. Like many noble ideas...
Many Iraqis have harsh things to say about their leader too, if you ask them in a rare moment when they feel brave or unguarded enough to confide their true feelings. One unconfirmable tale making the rounds involves a kindergarten student who was asked by his teacher if he had seen Papa Saddam's speech on television the night before. After the boy replied, "No. When he comes on TV, my father always turns it off," the father went missing. Or so the tale goes. Still, some Iraqis seem genuinely worried that without a strongman like Saddam, Iraq could descend...
Samuel A. S. Clark ’03, a history concentrator in Currier House, chose to take an extra year in kindergarten when offered the option of going to a new school with the big kids, or “staying here to color...