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...Separated from his wife, who went to work, and oldest son, who went to school, the first book tells of Rehr's escape from lower Manhattan. In a typically dramatic moment Rehr must wait inside the lobby of his building with his asthmatic toddler while the space fills with dust from the collapsed buildings. Eventually reconnecting with the rest of his family, part two covers their homeless life in the months after the disaster, a 9/11 story rarely heard about. Rehr tells of bouncing from one temporary living arrangement to another while struggling to find out information on the state...
Mujeres y Hombres Nobles, the oldest alternative high school for troubled kids in Los Angeles County, has been a model around the country. It serves 75 students, mostly Latinos from nearby East L.A. Their infractions range from truancy to firearm possession, drug selling and sexual assault. There are no window bars, security guards, metal detectors or pat-downs at the front door--just a friendly receptionist and a big, brightly colored bulletin board welcoming all visitors. "If we installed security devices, we'd be telling our kids that we don't trust them," says Cathleen Corella, the principal, who proudly...
Waller is a bass and the oldest of the three, a senior who modestly says he had already submitted several of his college applications...
...England Poetry Club reading. The NEPC, founded in 1913 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken, sponsors the oldest poetry reading series in the country. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway at Trowbridge...
...says they wrestled with the scale of the book: "We had to make it clear, vivid, exciting and simple enough to play onstage." In the end, they had to lose several important characters and memorable scenes - including one of co-adapter Reade's favorites, where Saleem visits Tibibi, the oldest whore in the world. Supple is using a cast of 20, mostly of South Asian background. Zubin Varla, who plays Saleem, says many of the actors identify strongly with the story. His own family hailed from Bombay's tiny Zoroastrian community, and he grew up in Britain with a sense...