Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems to help many of the Baraka kids redirect their lives. Kevin Prem, now 15, joined a gang when he was only 10. By the time he was 12, his two older brothers and nine of his friends had dropped out of school. At Baraka, though, Kevin got his temper under control and won five awards for academic excellence. Now he plans to be a prosecuting attorney, so he can put in jail "people who sell drugs to kids." Daryl Stewart, now 16, had been kicked out of six schools before going to Baraka. Today he's a sophomore...
...sooo about to lose my temper. If I get ONE more "Re: Class Marshal" E-mail, I'm going to hold a sit-in protest (we can hold it in the Discovery Channel Store! That way we can play with the Moon Muck, Dinosaur Excavation sets, and the Spell Charming kits!). Every time I open my e-mail box, I get another annoying, sleazy "vote for me" request. For example...
...obvious weak spot: his temperament. With King obliging as ever, Gore dredged up the disastrous (and catchily named) Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, a facile comparison of eras that worked perfectly. Gore handed Perot a framed picture of the pair; he interrupted Perot incessantly, made him lose his temper. Gore's decisive victory was the saving of NAFTA and the beginning of the end of Perot as even a semi-serious public figure...
...seems to help many of the Baraka kids redirect their lives. Kevin Prem, now 15, joined a gang when he was only 10. By the time he was 12, his two older brothers and nine of his friends had dropped out of school. At Baraka, though, Kevin got his temper under control and won five awards for academic excellence. Now he plans to be a prosecuting attorney, so he can put in jail "people who sell drugs to kids." Daryl Stewart, now 16, had been kicked out of six schools before going to Baraka. Today he's a sophomore...
...back, Sox fans might have been better off had they employed more caution in their approach to following this team. Perhaps we should not have allowed ourselves to get carried away with enthusiasm, so that we might never have been so greatly disappointed. Likely, we were foolish to not temper our passions that we might avoid the extremes of short-lived highs and devastating lows that mark the passage of each Boston summer...