Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care and maintenance of the school's physical plant, the prevailing atmosphere is one of community. While you can get Ad Boarded here for "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student," at my high school, you can end up on a Saturday work squad (raking leaves, filling potholes) if your monthly "citizenship" ranking is below...
...Fields Road Elementary, a public school in Gaithersburg, Md., this month's pillar of character is Citizenship. School hallways have names: Responsibility Lane, Trustworthiness Terrace, Caring Corridor. In Tammy Orsini's first-grade class, students assemble in groups to list the traits that make good citizenship, which are then read aloud. Being a good citizen, a boy recites, means "to have character...
...knows the routine. "Caring," he says, "respectful, trustworthy, citizenship...
Though Egyptian billionaire MOHAMED AL-FAYED failed to win British citizenship (again) this month, it hasn't impeded his plans to spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come...
...Sound commutes apparently provoked a petition that warned against the dangers of "butt police." A commuter told Sanchez that at least passengers hadn't had their backsides measured before being allowed to board. But what if space becomes even scarcer? Someday the prudent immigrant might show up for his citizenship exam not just with his papers in order and his head crammed with facts about the Constitution but also with everything emptied out of his back pockets...