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...communique issued by Hennawi: "Zaim forgot his promises and started to extend his hands to the property of the nation and ... to prejudice the noble values of the country . . . The population began to ridicule the army. Depending on God, the army is determined to save [the country] from the tyrant. God has ensured what the army desired...
Cloakroom Tyrant. At that point, the resemblance to other schools stopped. The Capitol Page School, an offshoot of the District of Columbia school system, is attended by the House's 49 page boys, the Senate's 21, the Supreme Court's four, and a few more Capitol-employed boys. School starts at 6:30 a.m. every weekday, lets out at 9:39 a.m.; work begins at 9:49 a.m., ends usually between 5 and 6 p.m. Homework is light. The student-pages are paid $246.95 a month; tuition is free...
Congress made no educational provision at all for nine-year-old Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...
...back and forth noting faults and weaknesses, and pointing them out with the use of a megaphone. As the opening race approaches. Belles reduces the amount of instruction and lets the crew find its own place and style. Therein lies another reason for Bolles' greatness: he is never a tyrant on form. He allows his oarsmen to retain their own quirks of style rather than insisting on uniformity at the expense of power and smoothness...