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...wait to pass on the news to the teacher. "I might reply, 'That's interesting,'" says Anne. "'because he talks all the time, can't follow instructions and hasn't completed a single task.'" Other parents consult child psychologists, speech and music therapists and sundry other specialists, desperate to unlock their child's potential. "Sorry," says Anne, "no therapist can fix an average IQ." Parents tend to retreat a little once their child reaches high school, though subject choices in the senior years can fire them up again. "It's often dads who will be absolutely determined that their daughter...
...saying that the best kind of white man is a dead white man. But you cannot sense any hostility toward whites. It is one of those paradoxes. This is one of the things that you would hopefully say to the State President: "All you need to do to unlock all that goodwill is to say you intend to dismantle apartheid, you are going to release unconditionally the people they acknowledge to be their leaders, you are going to sit down and talk with them, and you do have a specific program and plan...
Oskar’s goal becomes discovering what the key will unlock, but that goal is irretrievably linked to his experience of the events of Sept. 11. Through Oskar’s search, spurred on by terrorism and fueled by his own character, Foer posits a post-Sept. 11 mentality, formed by the tragedy, but foraging forward in history...
...accounts, the talent has been there all along—the team just had to find a way to unlock...
According to the incident report, an HUPD officer attempted to locate Maybury-Lewis in his room, but nobody came to the door. Peattie proceeded to unlock Maybury-Lewis’ door with a master key, where police found Maybury-Lewis asleep...