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...itself. When the elephants have to leave the Cincinnati zoo ? famous for its endangered species ? angry residents might remember they just nixed a $52 million levy for a new elephant house. When sports fans in Pittsburgh bemoan the lack of facilities for the Steelers and the Pirates, it may spark the memory of their own votes against new stadiums for the teams...
...lacked a spark or something," Kalil said. "We definitely had a few chances; [junior] Judy Collins had some great breakaways. But we never capitalized...
...program the school administration did adopt system-wide is an Afrocentric self-help regimen marketed by the Efficacy Institute of Lexington, Mass., and embraced by other black-majority school districts. Through a sequence of four-day, $10,500 group training seminars for teachers and staff, the institute hopes to spark school districts to extract better performance from both teachers and students by promoting a greater belief in the power of individuals to succeed no matter what their personal circumstances...
...they are identified by their eccentric clothing (Ray's plaid shirt and butterfly bow tie) or coiffure (Dave's gravity-defying orange comb-over). And they are defined by their jobs; we think of them simply as "the lion tamer" or "the mole-rat guy," and watch their eyes spark as they speak of the work that lights their lives...
...savage beating of a black, Haitian immigrant by the NYPD in August looked as if it could be the spark that ignited the city's always-simmering racial tensions. More recently, one of Giuliani's Jewish political allies published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty as an utter nightmare. While Giuliani distanced himself from this attack, he later implied that Messinger (who is Jewish) does not care about the city's Italian-American and Roman Catholic communities because she did not attend the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and dropped...