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...Your language teacher has realized you have a very broad definition of “native speaker...
...years, six-figure starting salaries have been the exclusive privilege of bankers, doctors, and lawyers. But now, a New York City charter school called The Equity Project promises to bring teachers into the $100,000-plus-club as well. The Equity Project, which is located in the historically disadvantaged and largely Hispanic neighborhood of Washington Heights, seeks to fundamentally change the paradigm of American public education: By offering its teachers base salaries of $125,000, the school hopes to bring the best and brightest educators into its classrooms—a logical response to the large body of empirical research...
...strong opinions, though, everyone agreed that the strongest belonged to Teri Peasel, who was busy highlighting the hair of Christy St. Pierre, a second-grade teacher. "I tell you," Peasel said, "I think if the Republicans get it again, we'll have another world war. Honestly, this whole government scares me. I am pro-life, but that's between a woman and her God. I'm voting for Obama, and I think he has a very good chance around here because people are so sick of what's going...
...snow-capped peaks. Both his parents had been early supporters of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, which ruled Austria after it was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1938. After the war his father was briefly penalized for his Nazi affiliation and his mother lost her job as a teacher; those bitter consequences, biographers say, helped shape their son's political views. Haider also inherited a $16 million mountain estate in Carinthia with a controversial past: his great uncle had purchased it from an Italian Jew forced to flee Austria in 1940. Critics said that the price of the land...
Ahtisaari, a former primary-school teacher, joined the Finnish Foreign Ministry as a diplomat in the mid-'60s. His first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...