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...words I read this past week, the ones that stuck with me were from Mr. Rogers, as quoted in last Friday's Wall Street Journal. Fred, who recently retired from the Neighborhood after educating and counseling kids for generations, was asked a series of questions regarding what an adult might tell a child regarding the attack. Mr. Rogers urged parents and caregivers to keep to familiar routines, limit children's TV viewing, redirect play toward "caring and nurturing themes...like making a pretend meal for the emergency helpers...
...very different test of this nation’s willingness to defend its values at any cost, a Democrat by the name of Stephen Douglas approached Republican Abraham Lincoln with the words, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” The two were hardly friends, and yet there are times when the most bitter of political foes become brothers allied against a common enemy...
...much criteria as it was a process issue,” CCA President Ken Carson says. “A really simple one—that is, that we had put out an announcement about interviewing candidates who were interested in the endorsement, and there was a deadline. Mr. Peixoto did not contact us before that deadline passed...
...made much of the complexity of the issues that brought Hawkins suit to surface. In a letter sent out to members of the Groton community addressing the hostile media onslaught that followed, Headmaster William M. Polk wrote, It is important to note that the allegations were first reported by Mr. Hawkins in the context of his trying to bargain with me to stop disciplinary action from being taken against other students in an unrelated disciplinary proceeding...
unnerving and spooky in Mr. Mather’s hands becomes a horror story in miniature. Amos, without needing to change Eminem’s lyrics, assumes instead the personalities of the murdered wife and bewildered child. Her falsetto refrain of, “Just the two of us” is so full of quiet menace and mourning that it becomes almost painful...