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...Mousam never voted, drove a car, paid taxes or performed any of the other everyday tasks that might ordinarily call her to the attention of Boston officialdom. Nevertheless, thanks to a city census taker who spotted her name on the front door of her home, Mousam received a summons last month ordering her to report for jury duty in August. Since Mousam ignored the summons, along with an enclosed form that permits prospective jurors to offer reasons for declining to serve, her housemates, Social Workers David Christian and Lia Graceffa, took charge. Christian checked a box indicating that Mousam could...
Those who spend their lives dealing with the everyday problems in the nation's schools are often wary of those who theorize solutions from the Ivory Tower...
...Institute is mutually beneficial. Practioners are so concerned with the everyday life of the institution, with keeping it going, that they don't always have time to bring new ideas to the surface. At the same time, practitioners have a whose lot of craft knowledge that rarely reaches the university setting," says Tabor...
...author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and collected pieces, spread his fame beyond New England...
...particularly his talks with Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl who was bussed into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. She had had to walk through angry with federal marshalls by her side and listen to obscene curses on her way to school everyday, said Coles...