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...torching at Ban Bukoh was one of more than 100 arson attacks on the region's state schools this year, against 37 in 2006, with nearly 80 teachers and school officials killed. Many were murdered with calculated savagery. In December, a school director and a teacher, aged 59 and 52, were gunned down a few hundred meters from their school in Yala; the four assailants then doused the bodies with gasoline and set them alight. In January, a kindergarten teacher died after eight months in a coma; she had been dragged from her class in Narathiwat by a Muslim...
...lady bird." And with that, her name was decided. Her fate, though, wasn't decided until 20 years later. In August 1934, just 10 weeks after she had graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in history and journalism, she met an ambitious former teacher named Lyndon Johnson. Three months after that, they were married, and she went from studying history to making...
...tended to chalk up her husband's religious fluency to his general political skill, the ability to be everything to everyone, while Republicans saw him as a fake who exploited religion for political purposes and pandered to voters. Now Senator Clinton, the lifelong Methodist and one-time Sunday school teacher, is in a bind: So many voters think they "know" she can't possibly be religious that when she speaks about her faith, they interpret it as pure political posturing...
...really capable communicator, so I can imagine she was a great teacher," Gfaller said. "It's a terrible loss, and she was certainly primed to make a significant impact in her field. I can imagine she may have already made one, knowing the kind of work she did as an undergraduate...
...dignity and calm. If there's been a criticism of her performance as a Minister (she held important jobs in the Education and Trade Ministries before joining the Cabinet as chief whip), it's that she can be calm to the point of boring. But the former economics teacher from Malvern who grew up in the British midlands and who represents a parliamentary constituency there also managed to avoid the factionalism that divided Labour. While Blairites and Brownites were fighting like cats and dogs, Smith was quietly making an impact...