Word: schoolyard
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...game in which two competitors each wield a horse chestnut attached to a string and take turns trying to smash the opponent's. Played primarily in September and October, as the requisite nuts ripen and fall to the ground, it's an autumnal tradition - and victory is the stuff schoolyard dreams are made...
...frank, pointed questions on human rights, Holocaust denial, Israel, Iran’s links to terrorist organizations, and the country’s nuclear program.Bollinger’s introduction did not make for a pointless discussion, as some critics claimed, nor was it mere “schoolyard name-calling,” to quote New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Instead, by raising these important questions in such an attention-grabbing and strong manner, Bollinger forced Ahmadinejad to either respond—thus furthering discourse—or ignore Bollinger’s questions—revealing...
Though many of the facts of the situation are still unclear, the final violence in Jena seems to stem from an incident in August 2006 in which white students placed nooses on a schoolyard tree after black students had the audacity to sit under it. The fact that neither the local prosecutor nor the federal district attorney could find statutes that such an dastardly and hate-filled act of intimidation violated points to a major problem with federal and local hate crime statutes...
...teachers coax the children into ragged lines in the schoolyard for a solemn morning assembly. A week before, an arson attack by Muslim insurgents had razed the old school building; some pupils wept when they saw the charred remains of their classrooms. "I don't have to ask how you feel," announces Mayakoh Cheyara, 47, the school principal. "I can see just by looking at your faces. But we all have to be strong." An older boy leads a short prayer in Arabic-all Ban Bukoh's 200 pupils are Muslims-and the national anthem is played. "Thais love peace...
...people make a modest living tapping rubber and growing bananas, rice and coconuts, yet parents have already raised 5,400 baht (about $160)-the equivalent of a monthly salary in these parts-to build a temporary classroom. Others have donated wood and roofing, which now lies ready in the schoolyard, or have offered to labor for free. "The parents are very supportive," says Mayakoh. "Some gave 100 baht, some gave 1,000. It lifts my heart...