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...grade, will be absent today. They turned 13 over the weekend, old enough for deer-hunting licenses, and, of course, their father has taken them shooting. With or without the twins, it is time for classes to begin. Erica Hess, 11, has the school-bell duty today. But the rope has broken, so she blows a whistle out the door. Her schoolmates troop in, put their snow boots in a neat row, then line up to pledge allegiance to the flag and sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee...
...With an institution such as Harvard, dramatic change is quite rare, and in that way, it is thrilling. Yet the University is entering rough waters with new challenges: raising funds, predicting future needs, and maintaining current services and standards through the process is certainly a tight-rope walk. The student body, the faculty, the staff, and the entire academic world will be watching and waiting with baited breath, as Harvard embarks on this new territory...
...tribesmen on the ridge were too dazed and panicked to count the bombs, but Kamil Shah, who watched in horror from nearby Zambar village, says "80 to 100 bombs fell that night." His brother was up on the hill, and Kamil and several other villagers grabbed a few rope cots to use as stretchers for the wounded, but the intensity of the bombing forced them back until daybreak. One of the tribal elders had a walkie-talkie. He managed to call a nearby police station, whose officers contacted the coalition base at Khost, about 60 km away...
...point, it got so bad that when I decided to play one particular frozen rope, destined for a patch of green a mere five feet in front of me, on the hop, Danielle Kerper shouted in my direction: “You’re supposed to catch...
...each weekday morning, the asphalt playground of Franklin Elementary School in Oakland swarms with some 900 boys and girls shooting baskets, playing tetherball and skipping rope. This large number of children are not at Franklin for a summer recreation outing. They are at morning recess in Franklin's year-round school, one of three such programs in the Oakland unified school district, and one of 394 year-round education projects that are nourishing at scattered locations in schools across the country...