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...retired Chicago inner-city teacher and principal, I have long felt that conscripting high school dropouts in national service might reduce gang activity. Perhaps we should send teens who quit school to training camps that, like F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, would be far from cities so that gang ties would be cut. Do we need help in the national forests with multiple projects...
...Gemma Luzzi, 65, a retired high school Italian teacher from Rome, recalled how Pavarotti's early performances gave new impetus to the classical form. But she wondered if the singer grew too attached to his fame. "He had a grand voice, but maybe he didn't have the strength to retire when he was on top. Maybe I'm a purist, but I never liked these duets (with pop singers). It kept him in the spotlight, so I guess he had fun doing them...
...situation without a usable Simpsons quote?) Starting out as a family cartoon, it grew a cast of hundreds that spanned celebrity (Rainier Wolfcastle), religion (the de-diddly-vout Flanders family), business (C. Montgomery Burns) and immigration (Apu). But maybe its best and favorite subject has been TV itself--"Teacher, mother, secret lover!" For all the series' ups and downs, it is still the Best. TV Show. Ever...
Remus Lupin sat in the chair in the teacher's lounge closest to the coffee booth. He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn't feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression...
...enthusiasm for a national Romanian film movement is guarded. He notes that TIFF's resident specialist on Eastern European films, programmer Dimitri Eipides, "approaches the Romanian new wave with some skepticism. You could barely field a soccer team with all the Romanian filmmakers. Apparently there's one great teacher at the film school there who has passed his influence to a half-dozen interesting directors...