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Demonstrators wielding ceremonial swords took to the streets after Friday prayers in Sudan's desert capital to vent their anger at an English teacher jailed because her class named a teddy bear Mohammed. A crowd of about 1,000 young men streamed out of mosques to gather outside Khartoum's presidential palace, later marching to the British Embassy and burning newspapers bearing images of 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons. The crowd demanded that the teacher be executed following her conviction on charges of blasphemy. Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison; she had faced a maximum of 40 lashes...
...With a teacher for a mom and a physician's assistant for a dad, Matthew North had two experts on the case from birth, but his problems baffled them both. "Everything was hard for Matthew," says Theresa North, of Highland Ranch, Colo. He didn't speak until he was 3. In school, he'd hide under a desk to escape noise and activity. He couldn't coordinate his limbs well enough to catch a big beach ball...
...career directing the National Dance Institute (NDI), a non-profit arts education organization he founded in 1976.In an effort to keep her son off the streets, d’Amboise’s mother had him tag along to his sister’s weekly ballet classes with a teacher named Madame Seda, where he caused disruptions by whistling and squelching his foot in the rosin box.“Madame Seda saw this little boy who…would make awful sounds,” d’Amboise recalled. “She said, ‘Little...
...down in Spanish class this week and my teacher passed around the room a newspaper clipping about “Spanglish.” The article discussed not the Adam Sandler movie, but rather the phenomenon—or, as some would say, “problem”—of English’s pervasiveness in Spain. It’s true, English phrases are ubiquitous here. When young people here mean “blue jeans,” they say “blujin” instead of “pantalones azules...
...Saks Fifth Avenue at the upscale Dallas Galleria on the day after Thanksgiving, but the soccer mom, 40, admitted, "I'm spending less this season because money is a little tighter than in years past." Meanwhile at the Aventura Mall in suburban Miami, Raquel Babani, a 28-year-old teacher from Hallandale, said, "It's the same shopping, but I'm getting good sales...