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Phillips, a sharecropper's daughter, is one of those magical teachers whom you could imagine in a hundred roles: talk- show host, prison warden, poet laureate, mayor of a midsize city. She teaches some of the best kids in the school and some of the worst, but like many teachers, it's the ones in the middle she is concerned about. "In trying to be something for everybody, we're not doing an intensive job for any group," she says. "There's something noble about this mission, but it doesn't always serve students well...
...East African safari that became the genesis of True at First Light began as a celebrity assignment for Look magazine. And the Kenyan government, worried that the Mau Mau uprisings would discourage tourism, welcomed Hemingway's visit and the publicity it would generate by naming him an honorary game warden...
...once a week. I've been in therapy since I was a kid on and off. My wife and I were in couple counseling last year, and the therapist suggested that we try role playing in our marriage. The first week was her turn and she was the abusive warden in the prison and by the time I was deloused all the passion was gone...
...that the two sides were engaged in a p.r. struggle over its timing. Justice would have been happy to play the tape at the end of the previous week, when the TV feed would have been fodder for a weekend's worth of chat shows. But Microsoft lawyer John Warden's cross-examination of Colburn proceeded so glacially--sample topic: What is e-mail, Mr. Colburn?--that the video was bumped to the following Monday. Microsoft couldn't have been unhappy that Gates got lost in the clutter of last week's national election-eve coverage...
...surprisingly, Microsoft has reacted indignantly to the government's "personal attacks on a visionary and innovator." John Warden, delivering Microsoft's opening statement, contended that Gates and his company had done nothing but engage in the hard-driving competition that is the essence of the free market. "The antitrust laws are not a code of civility in business," Warden told the court. He argued that Justice is trying to fix a software market that isn't broken. Microsoft is not a monopoly because there are few "barriers to entry" stopping would-be competitors from jumping in, Warden maintained. "There...