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...bread and cheese, then carried her on his back three kilometers to a train station. He called her Edita--the first time since her deportation that anyone had called her by anything but a number. When they reached Krakow, some other Jews told her to abandon the priest lest he try to convert her, and she hid. But she remembered his name and that he was from Wadowice. Reading a story on the new Pope in Paris Match in 1978, she said, "This is the man who saved me!" Today she came to Yad Vashem to thank...
...drill is exacting. At Anthony Bowen School in Washington, a dervish of a teacher named Nadine Broadus begins a reading lesson by tapping the classroom's "word wall" with a baton. "Clock. Hiccup. Clapping," chirps a staccato chorus of first-graders. Lest she get sidetracked, a kitchen timer cues her to move on after one minute. Broadus, a phys.-ed. teacher for 29 years, had no training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three...
...your Russian counterparts learned the hard way: "camaraderie" cannot be created from above, but rather bubbles up from below through meaningful dialogue and realization of common ends. Spirit Week may momentarily amuse the proletariat. But our lovable student Politburo should get moving on issues of real significance to students, lest the masses, though fragmented and discontented as they may be, decide to organize a coup...
...toward the exit, saddened that it's over. Well, at least I had a couple of hours to enjoy these consummate men, who, to an unknowing person, are simply bullies, pimps, assholes, and animals. Now, it's back to Harvard, where I must deny that I respect these men, lest I be thought "insensitive...
...until someone decides that retribution is not a viable option. And as we wonder whether or not Ishmael will decide to end the injustice by foregoing his revenge against Hatsue, we must ask ourselves if we can have the strength to forego revenge against those who have wronged us--lest it lead us to wrong others...