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...Times children's bestsellers list for more than a year. Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May), Barbara Park's hilarious new book, is the 25th in the Junie B. series. The plot: It's the week before winter break, and Room One is atwitter with the holiday spirit. But May, the class tattletale, is driving Junie B. crazy with her snooping. As usual, the heroine is in such a hurry to talk that she makes grammatical mistakes, like "stoled" and "bestest." Galley Girl made her own grammatical errors during breakfast with Park, 58, as the author passed through...
...protest spirit was infectious, with hungry students outside Lamont shouting their own slogans alongside the Quad Library hours agitators...
Many Germans welcome the change. The 1960s and '70s were a particularly intense time in Germany as young people threw off the social straitjacket of the 1950s and the legacy of Nazism. Fischer, who among other assorted jobs worked as a taxi driver, brought some of that contrarian spirit into German political life, famously clashing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. Schröder was not a radical but shared his cohort's progressive outlook and freewheeling lifestyle. (Schröder and Fischer have eight marriages between them.) "They all wore suits and ties...
...wheat-pastes to walls. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art acquired six of her pieces this past summer. "We were astounded," says Deborah Wye, chief curator of MOMA's department of prints. "She was using very traditional printmaking techniques--woodcut and linoleum--that she had infused with this contemporary spirit." It's a spirit she takes from the street. And one she leaves behind there...
...want to name this mountain after, it would be Powell,” Rennell said. “I’m giving back to someone who I thought I could never give back to by immortalizing the person through a 15,000-foot-high peak. [His] spirit deserves to be beyond the clouds.” Laursen said the HMC supports Rennell in this dedication. “Corey’s action speaks of the importance of Powell to the international scouting community and serves as a great gesture to Powell’s parents...