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...national teachers' union warns that the proposed settlement will lead to discipline quotas. "It will have a chilling effect," predicts Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "Basically, teachers will throw in the towel and say, 'Why should I get into trouble?' " He compares the proposal to requiring police to make racially balanced arrests. Kathy Nemann, a seventh-grade history teacher at Crest Hills Middle School in north Cincinnati, agrees. "Teachers will simply stop referring students for discipline," she says. "They'll handle the problem in the classroom"-at the expense of all students. Donald Mooney Jr., attorney...
...that Schami fits only into the queerball towel-head tradition. He weds Middle Eastern enigma with good old-fashioned European story-cycles. He self-consciously spurns the narrative conventions of the modern novel and reverts to the tradition of Homer, Apuleius, Bocaccio and Chaucer. We're talking tale within a tale within a tale...
...message that's coming across. Most R.E.M. fans know that Peter Buck is a great guitarist. But how many of you have even heard of Steven Gustafson? The band seemed to implode under the burgeoning weight of Natalie's popularity, so now they've decided to throw in the towel...
...result, sophomore goaltender Aaron Israel was untested for most of the game, as he faced only 19 shots for the game in posting his first collegiate shutout. At one point during the second period, one of Israel's teammates brought him a towel to wipe his face even though Yale hadn't sent a shot his way in several minutes...
Reporting from Haiti has been trying for all concerned. There is virtually no phone service; electrical blackouts last up to seven hours a day; gasoline is virtually nonexistent. The heat and humidity are so bad that visitors to the homes of both rich and poor are routinely given a towel to drip...