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Susan M. Harvey, a high school history teacher and Gay-Straight Alliance faculty adviser from Littleton, Mass., brought 11 Littleton High School Students to the fair. The smaller size of the event gave students an opportunity to have meaningful conversations with college representatives, she said...
Hilda Bailey, a 24-year-old teacher trainee, has changed her mind on the treaty since voting against it last year. "Job-wise, it looks pretty grim [in Ireland]," she says. "My friends have been trying [to find work] for months and months and now they'll probably go to England." Bailey says the treaty is the only answer to Ireland's woes. "My parents say that they'll do the exact opposite of what the government's telling them," she says. "I can understand how they feel - [the government] kind of screwed us over. But there's a bigger...
...avuncular piano teacher Joel Cranston, Kelsey Grammer is just right: he cocks his head and gives fond smiles to the good students and occasional exasperated lectures to the more challenging ones, like Victor (Walter Perez), who thinks Bach is lame. More of a surprise is Megan Mullally, who finally sheds her Will & Grace persona with the character of voice teacher Fran Rowan. In one of the most compelling scenes in the film, she takes her kids out to sing karaoke, wows them with her own skills, and then tries to explain why she never "made it." Ms. Rowan's self...
...weighted, adult-size hoops in 2001, and other companies, including Los Angeles-based Hoopnotica, were founded soon after. Since then, the activity has gained thousands of followers worldwide. Hoopnotica's sales have more than quintupled over the past three years, according to co-founder Keaton Koechli, while HoopGirl's teacher-training program has grown from 24 instructors to more than 350 in 13 countries. Classes in the U.S. are typically offered in private studios, though Crunch gym members in Los Angeles can now take Hula Hoop Pilates. Enthusiasts also form their own organized hooping clubs like the Bay Area Hoopers...
...Bureau worker in Clay County, Ky., who was found hanging from a tree, reportedly with the word Fed scrawled on his chest, rippled through the national consciousness more than other crimes from rural, tucked-away corners might have. The discovery of the body of Bill Sparkman, 51, a substitute teacher and a field worker for the bureau, comes at a time when talk media, tea parties and white-hot town-hall meetings have fanned antigovernment sentiment. Speculation has run rampant that the Sparkman case may be related to the vitriol. Kentucky, like many other Southern states, voted overwhelmingly for Senator...