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...force would have done well to understand that there are many students who are thrilled to leave the sciences behind them in high school. These students will do anything to avoid the rigorous type of science courses that the task force recommends. Unless Wilson also intends to be the policeman for these offerings, it will not take students long to spot the least scientific offering and flood it. Such a path seems inevitable. The task force's answer to students who want to avoid rigorous science is that they should apply elsewhere. In some schools a core requirement could have...
...people at the scene were too familiar: a driver wandered in a daze around the bent cars, a crowd of people stood and stared; a woman sat on the ground with her head in her hands; a policeman tried to keep things moving. The tow truck creaked as it dragged the two cars out of each other's steel embrace, but the people made no sound. An insistent flash from the policeman's cruiser froze the image in blue once every second...
After talking a while, fiddling with his radio, and wasting enough time to let any half-wise robber disappear, the first policeman told his partner and the student to get in the car, and they moved out. The cruiser raced back to catch the criminal with its high beams on and blue lights flashing. Even a sleeping wino would have fled the area. The cruiser drove right onto the Common as if it expected to find someone waiting there, but the Common, of course, was empty...
...rural Ribeirao Bonito in the Mato Grosso on Oct. 11, another Brazilian bishop went to the police station with Jesuit Father Joao Bosco Penido Burnier to investigate the torture of two women prisoners. After a nasty argument a policeman shot the priest to death before the bishop's eyes...
Readers further learn that Shakespeare stole from Falstaff in other dramas too. Hamlet's elegant admonition, "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," was really first uttered by Falstaffs disreputable pal Bardolph to confuse a policeman in a bawdy house. And that as early as 1459, Falstaff was reflecting: "I think for Hal the whole world was a stage and all the men and women merely players...