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The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15). They sure are, in rum-tiddly-pum verse designed for surefire (no trick at all, for dragons) recitation. Sample: "I'm bored with my bad reputation/ For being a miserable brute/ And being routinely expected / To brazenly pillage and loot...
The question in the case of New York City teacher Peter Melzer is, Is it possible, in all sincerity, to begin that recitation, "They came for the pedophiles . . .?"
Hellman did have one thing right: Mahoney is Irish and proud of it. In 1991 she spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for...
These lessons are repeated time and time again in journalism classes and reviews and at speeches and conferences at the Kennedy School of Government, the Nieman Foundation and even The Harvard Crimson. But reading Brook's book, and following along as he runs his award-winning paper the hard way...
Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Hillel, led the audience in the recitation of the Shehechiyanu, a Jewish prayer of thanksgiving. She then introduced Miznor Shir, the newly formed Hillel Choir, which sang one song.