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This is the art room. We made our own paper and scented it with cinnamon, transcribed vast amounts of scripture in calligraphy, made mosaics from medieval tapestries and shaped animals out of beeswax that you had to warm between your hands for 10 minutes before sculpting. “It taught us patience,” I say. “They taught us to work on something before trying to change it.” I feel the need to rationalize the seemingly arbitrary, touchy-feely nature...
...high school. Here our teacher stopped class so we could run outside and look at rare rainbow-colored clouds. On this hill, we enacted elaborate pageants for Michelmas, a feast day the rest of the world forgot in the middle ages. The whole school watched a vast papier-mâché dragon, animated by the entire sixth grade, vanquished by sword-wielding first graders...
...this acrimony with compromise. The newly created office will be a resource for conflicts between faculty, students, employees and the administration. Ehrenreich will provide informal mediation and advice to parties in a disagreement, but will lack the authority to impose mediated solutions. While the exact parameters of this potentially vast role remain undefined, there is a danger that direct communication between students, employees and the administration may be hindered by the filter of the ombudsman’s office...
...kind of war that has faced Colombia for decades can last for decades more. In Angola and El Salvador, countries that also faced guerilla movements, war led to the exhaustion of the warring parties, and, subsequently, peace. Though thousands are killed in Colombia each year, the vast majority are civilians. The government has not been able to put up enough resistance to appreciably wear down the rebels. Whenever the guerillas need a few years to rest and acquire fresh recruits and better weapons, they need only agree to a cease-fire and receive the laurels of the international community...
...argued a more plausible scenario was the installation of a “friendly” government, which would give the U.S. access to Iraq’s vast oil resources...