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...nice, steady flow of people came to the Lowell store that day, spurred no doubt by an article that my friend, Dave Perry, had written about the book in the Lowell Sun. Mr. Taranto, my old science teacher, came with his wife and granddaughter (who insisted I sign her Junie B. Jones book, even though I demurred that I had nothing to do with writing it). Mrs. Donahue, my old doubles partner in the city tennis tournament, dropped by. (I had to sign her book ?Bobby? Sullivan.) Old customers of my dad?s at the Union National Bank...
Janssen, for her part, had considered leaving when she was pregnant. "Now, it's not even an issue," she says. As for Blesener, the retail supervisor, he went to his first parent-teacher conference, a task that had always fallen to his wife, a stay-at-home mother to their two sons. Joe Pagano, 55, a vice president who works in merchandising, looks back in sadness at all the sacrifices he made. While his wife stayed at home with their son and daughter, "I basically worked every Saturday, and some Sundays," he says. "It's one of the biggest regrets...
...four men who met at London's King's Cross railway�station must have looked ordinary enough to the thousands of commuters rushing to work on the morning of July 7. Three were British born--a 30-year-old grade-school teacher with a baby daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning- disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth...
...would put me in jail. Fitzgerald counseled me that he wanted me to answer completely but didn't want to force any answers on me or have me act as if I remembered things more clearly than I did. "If I show you a picture of your kindergarten teacher and it really refreshes your memory, say so," he said. "If it doesn't, don't say yes just because I show you a photo of you and her sitting together...
...READY FOR SCHOOL IN THE FALL? For moms and dads who are getting ready for back to school of public-school children, there's a lot of alphabet soup. There's a lot of bureaucratese and education mumbo jumbo: AYP [adequate yearly progress] and the HQT [highly qualified teacher]. I think it's sometimes intimidating for parents and sometimes hard to navigate as to what the meaning of all that is to your own child. Now I'm embarking on this whole new sending-your-child-off-to-college adventure for the first time ever. I talk about standing...