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...innkeepers and many locals along the trail well enough to ask about the latest family news or village gossip, each guide is a mine of general knowledge about the country. After-dinner chats can easily swoop from discussions of feudalism to an analysis of contemporary demographics. It's a lesson in Japanese studies that you won't find in any lecture theater, with some rigorous exercise to boot...
...never did answer. It’s a joke now (I call him the Manipulator and he calls me a Cold B****). It’s funny (kind of), but every once in a while, I’m still troubled by the lesson that I’m painfully swallowing. As I look back, being tactless always had a tradeoff, but the price I had to pay was always worth being able to say the things I wanted to say. But now, at least at work, I find that I can no longer afford the price of that strangely...
Offenders aren't the only ones to get a lesson in justice at youth court. Volunteer defenders and prosecutors, who undergo eight weeks of training, also come to understand the judicial process. They serve for at least a year, often more. When not lawyering, they rotate among the other court roles: judge, bailiff and jury foreperson. Jurors are untrained volunteers in seventh through 12th grades. They carefully weigh sentences, which usually range from 30 to 60 hours of service-cleaning a local park, washing police cars, working at a food bank-depending on the severity of the crime...
...blasts in London provided a disheartening lesson: crude bomb attacks can kill dozens, even with 6,000 cameras in the subway system and a populace taught by I.R.A. violence to report suspicious bags. But just because Americans can't prevent all bombings doesn't mean they should do nothing--or everything, in feverish, sporadic security binges. "We should all take a deep breath," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There is an ongoing threat, and we need a sustained level of involvement...
...term outsider art could have been invented for Eduard Bersudsky. In 1958, as a bored Jewish student in Leningrad, his flippant offer to do his work placement "as far away as possible" earned him a lesson on how far that could be in the Soviet Union: a coal mine in Russia's Arctic north and an army call-up. A stammerer since childhood, Bersudsky was bullied by his colleagues, and he finally stopped speaking entirely...