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...Clinton is not without her own grassroots support in South Bend. Jennifer Peck, a 30-year-old teacher turned stay-at-home mom and part-time waitress, is one such backer. One afternoon last fall, Peck sat in her living room scouring www.meetup.com for playgroups for her two young children. Instead, she signed up for a group of South Bend Clinton supporters, and by Thanksgiving was soliciting hundreds of signatures onto petitions to get Clinton on the primary ballot. Last week, she made 200 meatballs for the staffers and volunteers gathered at the local campaign office for a debate-watching...
Natascha, a French yoga teacher, is a type that could be found in any organic-vegetarian restaurant in any of the cosmopolitan cultural capitals of Europe and the Americas. She has studied with the glitterati of yoga masters, and is in town for a refresher course. "It's a dream life," she says, while munching an organic vegetable hotpot at a café catering exclusively to yoga enthusiasts. "You can practice yoga with the masters, eat organic food, and rent a bicycle to take you around this beautiful city...
...Diplomats say prosperity has raised tensions between hardliners and pragmatists in the government. The differences were highlighted last year by the case of Gillian Gibbons, an English teacher jailed after her class of seven-year-olds named a teddy bear Mohammed. She was convicted of insulting Islam's Prophet, but was released days later with a presidential pardon...
...only public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRLS), was on probation for failing to meet state standards. Re-orienting the system’s focus in order to improve performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) would not prove easy.“A teacher stood up at a meeting and said, ‘I’ve never taught to standards, and I never will,’” he said. “I think that’s a disservice to young people.”Five years later, CRLS has been...
...first scene of “The Visitor,” Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly...