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...office supplies, while the lack of digitization in some government bureaus is almost Monty Python-esque. In Diyala, the governorate's billion-dollar budget (the amount is cumulative because the budget has not been executed over three fiscal years) was being administered by a single accountant who had "a pencil, an eraser and a huge ledger," says Hunt...
...bracelets that let them go on all the rides. They quickly outgrew the little trains but could ride the bumper cars; then they outgrew those but could take on the climbing wall. Now they prefer the roller-skating rink, where boys and girls hold hands. As with the pencil lines on the kitchen wall, we've watched them grow through their small rituals. If ambition and opportunity spin us off in every direction, traditions reel us back to where we came from so we can see how we've grown...
...Deploying pen and ink, pencil, woodcuts, crayons and oils, the drawings in the book are exalting, filling you with joy and revelation. But crucially, Tan can also write: his stories effortlessly rearrange the pattern of reality in prose that is evocative and supple. Seek this book...
...screen. "It was like Russian roulette," says Rhodes, a tall young man with an older man's steady gaze. If he picked the wrong computer, the teacher would give him a handout. He would spend the rest of the period learning to use Microsoft Word with a pencil and paper...
...AUGUST, I SPENT THE MORNING with Rhee as she made surprise visits to Washington public schools. She emerged from her chauffeured black SUV with two BlackBerrys and a cell phone and began walking--fast--toward the front door of the first school. She wore a black pencil skirt, a delicate cream blouse and strappy high heels. When we got inside, she walked into the first classroom she could find and stood to the side, frowning like a specter. When a teacher stopped lecturing to greet her, she motioned for the teacher to continue. Rhee smiled only when students smiled...