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...mood is far more welcoming in the N.L.A.-controlled village of Radusa, just over the hill from the border with Kosovo. With most of the civilians gone, a pair of donkeys had taken refuge from the sun in the partially destroyed mosque. The local N.L.A. commander, code-named Mesusi, posed in front of a captured T-55 tank to say he had already begun discussing the modalities of disarmament with British troops. "We're going to hand in all 140 of our guns," he said, as well as the two tanks and one armored personnel carrier captured in fighting with...
...meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity. As he went along his mood would assert itself and the temperature would start to increase till the point of incandescence... He inspired us all - the musicians, the actors, the sound-effects men and the engineers. They?d all tell you they never worked on shows like Welles...
...Which, in the end, is actually a good thing. As scary as it seems to conceive of admission decisions hinging on an officer's personal politics or mood, there is something comforting about the randomness of it all. It makes signing up one's third grader for violin, judo and Boy Scouts suddenly seem senseless. Or hiring a $20,000 college consultant to help package your child. Or doing anything other than relaxing and letting your child pursue what he or she actually wants to do - even if that means going off to join the circus...
...street shows little enthusiasm for a cease-fire; opinion polls find that two out of three Palestinians support suicide bombings against Israel. Moreover, it has been Arafat's own security forces that have born the brunt of Israel's military response to the intifada, and they're in no mood to go out and arrest anyone at Israel's behest. Indeed, the Islamists chuckle to the Arab media that Sharon's strategy of bombing PA security facilities has actually drawn Arafat's men closer to the very people a cease-fire would oblige them to act against...
...Beneath the tired, fruitless battles between Fordham and the Commission are some important truths. We do need to find new ways to attract more and better teachers - and since states seem in no mood to raise taxes, bumping up salaries may not be an option. Lowering entrance barriers is one proven way to attract new talent: there is no doubt that the time and money involved in becoming certified, along with the poor quality of many teacher education programs, turns people away. But it is also true that such barriers tend to weed out the half- hearted: studies show that...