Word: opening
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...religions in a single student body. At their best, public schools have united diverse groups of students, many of them immigrants, by passing on the nation's shared civic heritage, from George Washington to George Washington Carver. Public schools have the ability to teach democracy simply by being open to all children, and regarding them--and their backgrounds and religions--as equally worthy. "Nobody claims private schools can't teach tolerance, mutual respect and nondiscrimination," says Princeton political science professor Amy Gutmann. "But in public schools, they are taught as much by the mixing of students as they...
...natural form of sexual expression, Bagemihl believes such political questions may be beside the point. "We shouldn't have to look to the animal world to see what's normal or ethical," he says. Indeed, when it comes to answering those questions, Mother Nature seems to be keeping an open mind...
That emotion is familiar to Pamela Hartley. She still is the manager at the Rustica, where she was eating a late dinner that ghastly night when Tom and Ethan burst in. One of them pointed a gun at her and told her to "open the f______ drawer." The experience is with her every night at the restaurant. "You know, people say they were kids, or they weren't really going to shoot, or whatever," Hartley says. "But they were in a very violent state of mind, screaming, just all over the place. They wanted everyone to think they would hurt...
...names every tree and evokes, with arresting grandeur, the sound of a coyote's distant howl, or a boy's delight in rivers and horses. With its old-fashioned words like surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith. Ben sees a mountain goat running, and he "felt poised on the cusp of the world, as close to God as he might ever get, with no place higher but heaven itself...
...advice and, I hoped, a convincing argument to back out of this arrangement, I called George Plimpton, who spent a season training as a goalie with the Boston Bruins for his 1985 book, Open Net. "Hockey players are the greatest cats on earth," he said Plimptonly. He then recounted his own experiences and lacerations. "I envy you," he said. "You'll have a lot of fun. Maybe you won't have so much fun. I don't know...