Word: powell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place is a far cry from that long-dead Roman town. This is inner-city Philadelphia, and the discipuli are fourth-graders at Samuel Powel Elementary School. Leonardus, a.k.a. Bruce Leonard, is one of a cadre of new-wave Latin teachers who are reviving the classics in schools across...
...children love it. So do some 14,000 other Philadelphia youngsters who are taking Latin in 20-minute daily sessions of games, songs and chatter, supplemented by lively workbooks starring Batman, Conan the Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants...
...Kenneth Carstens, a South African civil rights activist, Robert Cox, an Argentinian journalist, and Powel Bakowski, a publisher for the Polish underground, joined Jung before an audience...
...taking someone's car, we are striking right home. It is something that gets people's attention and sells them we are serious," Virginia Powel, Assistant U.S. Attorney and director of the program said...
...owners of the first 12 cars seized since the program began last week have all offered to discuss repayment, Powel said, and other car owners have volunteered repayment, apparently anticipating the loss of their cars. She estimated 125 confiscation's will take place in the next month...