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...Tzamaloukas had stopped dancing. The absence of the tram had turned into a taunt. "We are very sensitive at the moment," said Evangelos Stathatos, a teacher. "It's this Olympics business." Stathatos was speaking not of the record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know...
...someone offers you something to eat, accept it. That's being polite." Booth followed the advice, inhaling more exotic food, culture and adventure in those three years than most people manage in a lifetime. He eventually returned to Britain, worked as a truck driver, legal clerk, wine steward, English teacher and, only after he turned 40, a writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other...
...Teacher Charity C. Glass ’05—herself once a Summerbridge student in Pittsburgh—spoke about what the program meant to her over the years...
...addition, each day features an extended lunchtime with student and teacher performances and community meetings in which students discuss issues in their lives with their teachers...
Mead said the competition to become a teacher in the program is far more intense than that to become enrolled as a student. This summer, over 300 people applied for 28 teaching positions...