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...Onstage he connected viscerally with audiences. Taking his bows, he spread wide his enormous stevedore arms in a gesture of embrace, often flaunting a trademark white handkerchief that was approximately the size of Rhode Island. As applause cascaded over him, he visibly inhaled it like life-giving oxygen, which it was to him. "I am enthusiastic of the job I do and enthusiastic of life," he once said. "The pleasure of the profession is the human warmth around me, the public out there...
...defensive half of the field, clearing out repeated Ram bids on net. One of Rhode Island’s most threatening chances came on a corner kick late in the game. The crossed ball reached an unguarded Ram waiting on the far post, but his header went just wide and the Crimson was able to hold on for the win. “They created some havoc for us in the second half that we had to deal with,” said Harvard head coach John Kerr. “I am really happy that we got the right...
Airbus' counterstroke to the Dreamliner is a bigger (average 314 seats), more technologically advanced, fuel-efficient A350, an "Xtra Wide-Body" plane planned for rollout in 2013. The goal is to compete with the Dreamliner for new business while rendering the economics of Boeing's transoceanic 777 obsolete. Boeing is already headed for a larger plane, the 787-10, a potential 320-seater, primarily because of demand from airlines like Dubai-based Emirates and Australia's Qantas Airways...
...gulf between public and private life in Iran had shrunk, a happy development, especially for parents, who saw their children more willing than at any time before the revolution to spend their lives inside the country. But talking to my nephew, I could almost feel the gap being stretched wide open again, and the thought filled me with sadness...
...proliferation of charter schools, home schooling and private schools. In my state, an alliance of politicians and the teachers' union controls all funding and curriculum for kindergarten through high school. As a result, teachers and administrators are given little incentive to be creative in educating students with a wide range of aptitudes...