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...neat, well-tended elementary school in the predominantly black and Puerto Rican South Bronx, Principal Larcelia Kebe worries about managing a full complement of 825 students with fewer teachers this year; 15 of her 35 teachers have been laid off or transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced from three to two hours a day, and with less supervision, young pupils are more apt to wander away from school during lunch and not come back...
Goya shows that the civilians suffered in many ways: in "Para Eso Habeis Nacido" (This Is What You Were Born For), a man vomits on a pile of typhoid-ridden corpses, against a background of mottled, dark blotches. In "Enterrary Callar" (Bury Them and Be Quiet), Goya shows a mound of bodies, topped by a weeping woman and a man covering his mouth at the sheer horror of the smell. "When the French entered the city," reports an 18th century English journalist (quoted in the excellent catalogue by Eleanor Sayre) "6000 bodies were lying in the streets and trenches...
...organization of a summer job referral service, to serve as an alternative to traditional legal and para-legal opportunities...
...Institute is one of Radcliffe's nine major departments and uses one-third of Radcliffe's $3 million annual budget. It grants about 35 fellowships a year to women, most of them professional scholars, but has expanded its scope in the last year to include research on para-professional training for women...
...indeed. But if the reader resigns himself to the remarkable fact that this elephantine farce will move through five decades of Asian para-history without at any point touching ground or making the slightest sense, there is a lot of dizzy fun in the book. Edward Whittemore is more an engaging long-distance liar than a novelist, and his scheme for persuading literature to lurch forward is simply to introduce another freakish impossibility whenever reason's vague outline is sighted through...