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...bewildered by her predicament. "I'm just one entity within a number of people who testify," she says. "They're keying on the negative and not looking at the good work I did." In her 21-year career with the Oklahoma City police, she had an unbroken string of positive job evaluations and was Civilian Police Employee of the Year in 1985. Her ability to sway juries and win convictions earned her the nickname "Black Magic." In 1994 she was promoted from forensic chemist to supervisor. Until recently, Hall says, she did not have "a bad piece of paper...
Ironically, Hand's successes have spawned a string of new challenges. So many families have returned--or transferred in from other schools--that some classes have swelled to 32 students. Half of Hand's students take at least one class in a portable trailer. And because Hand's scores are soaring, it stands to lose two teachers allotted by the state to low-scoring schools...
...Joji Obara was born in 1952 to an impoverished Korean family in postwar Osaka. His father had been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara - then known by his Korean name Kim - was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name...
It’s like the University took some old toys they were keeping in the backyard, wrapped them up in paper and string and presented them to PSLM as Christmas presents. Then they unwrapped them in front of all of us on Tuesday, ooh-ing and ahh-ing until we were convinced they got exactly what they wanted...
...mavericks like John Breaux, Robert Torricelli, Ben Nelson and Zell Miller - all of whom were at the White House on Wednesday when Bush did his crowing about the tax-cut compromise - who get to prune Bush's agenda items as they see fit, and who will have an endless string of opportunities to be on the winning side of every major congressional stand...