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...into Boston and take the jobs of real live, incumbent teachers. Their arrogance is appalling.” Stutman also added that Boston public schools, which do not have a shortage of “qualified candidates,” has no need for TFA teachers. But Elizabeth A. Texeira ’09—one of the record-breaking 50 Harvard students who will join TFA next fall—said she believes Boston could benefit from the program. “I think there’s always going to be some resistance to change when...
...applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty-three of them were from Harvard.‘HAPPY AND STABLE’Those seniors who have already committed to TFA say they are eager to begin their two-year tenures with the program.Elizabeth A. Texeira ’09, who will be teaching in New Orleans, said she “literally [had] not stopped celebrating” since being accepted, despite encountering some resistance from family and hometown acquaintances.“People said to me, ‘Why are you wasting...
Trail of Rape. Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, in declaring the sentences, coldly described the mercenaries as "dogs of war with bloodstained muzzles who left a trail of rape, murder and pillage across the face of our nation." Four men were condemned to death: Costas Georgiou, 25, the notorious Cypriot-born Briton who, as "Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento...
Trial Tone. The evenhanded tone of the trial was set by Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, a Luanda lawyer. He questioned witnesses in a calm, fatherly way, occasionally rebuked flamboyant, goateed Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro, and allowed defense lawyers to introduce matters that Western courts would quickly have ruled inadmissible or irrelevant. At one point the judge ordered the arrest of a prosecution witness for perjury and had the testimony of another stricken from the record...
...them. He was obviously concerned about heading off a Rhodesian-style breakaway by the oil-rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the journal of Frelimo (the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique), editorialized: "The only language [Lisbon] understands is the language of force." The guerrillas obviously agreed. They killed nine persons last week in Mozambique, including...