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Umair Choudhry, 10, steps off a yellow school bus in Chicago wearing a helmet, mittens and a mouth guard. He's dressed for protection--not from the elements or schoolyard bullies but from himself. He has bitten his arms in the past and scarred his scalp by tearing out his hair. In his native Pakistan, his relatives think he is possessed by demons. "They said an evil spirit was making him hurt himself," says his mother Farah Choudhry. In the U.S., his affliction is known as autism...
Hearing Vice President Al Gore and George W. Bush parry over who has the tougher testing regime on Tuesday night, you'd think you were caught in the middle of a good old my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad schoolyard brawl. You'd be right. And it's not just wannabe residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who are in this tussle. As the stakes of standardized tests have risen dramatically over the past few years, tying student promotion and teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun...
Sometimes the slap comes out of nowhere. I remember taking a leisurely walk in my neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper West Side when a little girl dashed over from one end of a schoolyard to start cackling nonsense syllables at me. At first I wondered what was going on. Then I realized she was speaking mock Chinese. At the U.S. Open tennis tournament a few weeks ago, an attendant managing the crowd rather rudely shoved me against a wall. I asked why, and he suddenly became aware that I spoke English. He then said, "Use the other exit." And more...
...gloat, but am going to refrain until this string of glorious good luck has established itself into something resembling a pattern. On a more serious note, how 'bout them Brownies? Hope they enjoyed that win, because this week the Steelers are going to burst their bubble like a schoolyard bully...
Intro | Dance | Theater | Music For some, art and sport, like oil and water, don't mix. "Maybe it goes back to the schoolyard," says Paul Costantoura, author of the recent Australia Council report Australians and the Arts. "There were sporting types and there were non-sporting types." But Costantoura uncovered a surprising degree of overlap. Of those surveyed, 78% agreed that "people can enjoy the arts in the same way that they enjoy sport." While followers of Shakespeare or Shirvington might beg to differ, both arenas offer audiences a primal ritual, says Costantoura: "It's the vicarious struggle...