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...typical geographic “disadvantage,” in the lingo of affirmative action, is bald-faced. Montana, for instance, still has about 100 one-room schoolhouses where the educator is a teacher, counselor and principal all-in-one. These schools struggle to meet basic accreditation standards, much less offer “AP courses,” or a full regiment of math and science. And SATs? Pretty much out of the question without a 100-mile drive...
Jocelyn, 47, a first-grade teacher in Akron, Ohio, had opposed Jim's enlistment. His entire senior year of high school, he had talked about following his father and grandfather into the service. But because he was only 17 when he graduated, Jim needed both parents' permission to sign up. Thinking her son was just going through a phase, Jocelyn refused. She still "was in denial," she says, when he joined the Army two days after turning 18. Nonetheless, she says, "I'm proud of him for doing what he believed in." Although Jocelyn opposes the war, she never leaves...
...this sad, lost-puppy-dog look on his face--this unhappy, empty look." SANDRA JOLLY, Florida mother whose 6-year-old was told by his teacher in class that Santa Claus was made...
...What I liked a lot also was A Mighty Heart, Mariane Pearl's book about Danny Pearl, which is a beautiful book. I was also very crazy about Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking, a novel told from the point of view of the best friend of a teacher who's having an affair with her student. It's a satire about friendship, publicity, love--a great mean novel...
...strict secrecy practiced by JI and its affiliates means that Nyupeno and many other teachers might have had no idea of the true identity of the travelers who took advantage of the school's hospitality. (A teacher at the school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members...