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...first meeting with Sharon since Abbas' election as President of the Palestinian Authority. Sitting across a long oblong table in an airy conference room, Sharon reiterated to Abbas his demand that the Palestinians take immediate steps to disarm the militants of Hamas before Israel agrees to resume peace talks. "Wait, wait, give me a break," Abbas said, according to Israeli officials who attended the meeting. "I've only been in office a couple of weeks." Sharon showed no sympathy. "You've got to move faster," he said...
...they do. "There's more parent involvement that's good--and bad," notes Kirk Daddow, a 38-year veteran who teaches Advanced Placement history in Ames, Iowa. "The good kind is the 'Make yourself known to the teacher; ask what you could do.' The bad kind is the 'Wait until something happens, then complain about it and try to get a grade changed.'" Overall, he figures, "we're seeing more...
Parents seeking to stay on top of what's happening in class don't have to wait for the report card to arrive. "Now it's so easy for the parents through the Internet to get ahold of us, and they expect an immediate response," notes Michael Schaffer, a classroom veteran who teaches AP courses at Central Academy in Des Moines, Iowa. "This e-mail--'How's my kid doing?'--could fill my day. That's hyperbole. But it's a two-edged sword here, and unfortunately it's cutting to the other side, and parents are making demands...
...Carroll will debut some sections of The Petting Zoo tomorrow—if printer problems don’t get in the way. “I’m going to read a lot of pieces of new prose, and I usually wait until the last minute to figure out what to read,” Carroll said. “But since it’s new stuff, I’m going to have to think about it and print it out–except I can’t print...
...nice enough song. The whole album’s really pretty good. I can’t wait until Benzino or Ja Rule records a diss track calling him “The Gay” though. Probably won’t happen, but the unfortunate thing is, they’ve almost definitely thought...