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James L. Kugel, Starr professor of classical and modern Jewish and Hebrew literature and of comparative literature, teacher of this semester's largest class, Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and Its Interpreters," also gave his approval...
...great admirer of Tobias Wolff, who was actually a teacher of mine. He writes so well about the pain of growing up. But where he writes about characters under extreme pressure, I tend to write about characters who are overtly normal...
...There were two interesting ideas really. In this case, I can't remember which story--the teacher's or the students'--xame first. I was writing the students' story as an attempt to recreate the 1992 presidential election in a high school so that was a fairly allegorical and satirical decision. The teacher's story was much more a serious character study and that came from an anecdote I read in the paper--I believe it was a teacher in a Southern state who had burned a box of votes for prom queen because the students had elected a pregnant...
Just a year ago in Jonesboro, teacher Shannon Wright, mother of a two-year-old, stopped a bullet for another mother's child. Two week ago, Dave Sanders bled to death after directing kids to safety. And we're supposed to think gun buyers can't endure a little red tape, a little delayed gratification in making their purchase? Without guns, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were menacing misfits in trench coats feasting on Internet swill. With guns, they became merciless mass murderers. We're hungry for a politician who can stand up to the gun lobby and convince...
...follow up on complaints by the parents of Brooks Brown that Harris had threatened their son. Police have also been criticized for not acting faster on April 20 to storm the school and stop the shootings. The strongest claim could come from the family of Dave Sanders, the teacher who bled to death while waiting three hours for help. Yet any suit against the police would again run into immunity problems, as well as the reluctance of courts to second-guess police on tactics. "It's not like Waco, where law enforcement's own action produced the death," says Denver...