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...scratched their heads over Pelosi's judgment last week, they knew where it was coming from. "This isn't San Francisco," said a former Democratic-leadership aide. "This is Baltimore." The latter is where Pelosi grew up and where she got her first lessons in politics, from the best teacher anyone could want. When Nancy D'Alesandro was a child, her father used to collect yellow sheets of paper that were stacked and stapled together at the end of each week. They were called the "favor file." That was the way Baltimore's legendary Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.--later...
...said School Committee member Luc Schuster. “But how often in our lives are we asked questions with very definite, discrete answers?” School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 said that the district’s focus should be on improving teacher quality and not simply improving test scores. “We don’t want to be a test prep factory,” she said. “The whole dream is to get to a point where teachers say, ‘I don?...
...they're finding a sense of wholeness by binding themselves to their faith. Sister Melissa Schreifels, 37, first considered becoming a nun when a teacher at her high school in St. Cloud, Minn., suggested it. Because it seemed that "nobody was doing that anymore," Schreifels attended college and launched a career as a pharmacist, volunteering at her church, a hospital library and a pregnancy crisis center in her spare time. "But there was just an emptiness inside that doing the volunteer work and the pharmacy work didn't fill in me," she says. When a pastor again suggested sisterhood, Schreifels...
...Downers Grove, Ill. Sain, the last pitcher to face Babe Ruth, and Braves left-hander Warren Spahn were deemed so crucial to the team's successful campaign for the 1948 National League pennant that a lyric was born: "Spahn and Sain, pray for rain." Sain later became a visionary teacher, stressing the mental side of pitching and inspiring accolades from players like Jim Bouton, who dubbed him "the greatest pitching coach who ever lived...
...recall one of the most intriguing parts of my Advanced Placement United States politics course involved the interpretation of political cartoons. Our teacher, in an effort to diversify the usual assignment of essay questions assigned us the task of drawing our own cartoons. The assignment, due a week after President Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” State of the Union address, resulted in almost the entire class drawing various depictions of a triangle surrounded by the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq, with hazardous waste symbols, and the words...