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...that she was “very bad at titles.” Although she is fluent in English, Allende continues to write her novels in Spanish, and she superstitiously always begins writing each novel on January 8. Audience member Dahri I. McFaline, a Spanish teacher and long-time Allende reader, lauded the “strong humanistic side” of her writing, saying that her work is “very inspiring” and that “you can identify with any aspect of her writing.” Allende said her reason for continuing...
...constantly when we were filming; I went back and forth between there and Cambridge. But I came to feel at home there.THC: What was it like changing the type of role you played from the first season of the show to the fourth, as a cop who becomes a teacher?JTF: My character was definitely modeled after the career of Ed [Burns, writer for “The Wire”], but I wasn’t supposed to directly represent him. The job of teacher in an inner-city Baltimore school is difficult. In the first year as teacher...
...year-old in Higley, Ariz., threatened to kill the girl he liked and the boy who had kissed her. He told police that he got the idea from news reports and was only kidding. Another 11-year-old, in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot a teacher's tape player and then the teacher. He apparently did not like the teacher's "obnoxious music." Elizabeth Bush, the eighth-grader in Williamsport, Pa., who dreamed of becoming either a human-rights activist or a nun, shot the head cheerleader in the cafeteria. "No one thought I would go through with...
...personal anecdotes are at once amusingly self-deprecating and annoyingly self-aggrandizing. And call me a prude, but when Leitch writes of Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds that “their back looks like your face did when all you could think of was your algebra teacher while masturbating into a sock. (And by ‘when’ I mean ‘Tuesday.’)” I can’t help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print...
...ways, the group was a mirror of Austin - a multicultural mix of whites, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics, immigrant and native-born, young men and middle-aged single women, a guy with a ponytail, a woman with a Caribbean accent, an Arab-American precinct chairman, a graphic designer, a teacher-cum-soccer mom, an entrepreneur, a real estate company owner. All of them were participating in their first county convention and, though tired after an almost 12-hour caucus, all went away in awe of the messy deliberative process...