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...supposed to be doing. I’ve said to a few people: “Well, I’m the person who goes to a fascinating lecture, but what I’m paying attention to is the kind of barrette the lady in row three is using to hold her hair up and when it’s about to fall out.” So again, details, certainly, but it’s not always a gift...
...gasping syllable came out of my mouth just as I felt a tug on the still-connected headphones around my neck, and the release as momentum freed the iPod. It hit a metal trash can straight on, then skidded off into the street making with a sound like a row of people dropping their cell phones one after the other. None of this happened in slo-motion...
Districts that do not meet the Math and English Language Arts targets for their states two years in a row, or their individual improvement targets based on the school’s prior year’s performance, are labeled as needing improvement...
...1970s, Brian Clough was one of the best-known figures in Britain. A talented soccer player whose career was cut short by injury, he went into management, leading not one but two unfashionable clubs to the English championship and then winning the European Cup two years in a row. He was a clever, cocky, working-class hero with an opinion on everything from Margaret Thatcher (against) to striking miners (for). Brilliant, needy, self-destructive - he was an alcoholic and had a liver transplant before he died in 2004 - he combined humor, bombast, friendships and rivalries in a long and very...
...Outside the 8-foot-tall perimeter walls, the army's Lahore corps had deployed an imposing presence. Two khaki-painted tanks rumbled in the shade of towering green trees. Over a dozen large army trucks were parked in a row as the soldiers they carried patrolled the streets, replete in combat gear and bristling with weaponry. Paramilitary troops and police commandos had also been deployed to scene...