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Abdullah, who has an easy rapport with students, issues a quick reminder to sign up for "Super Saturday" review classes and then begins his math-athon with a rousing recitation of the school's declaration of education. "We believe that we can learn at high levels," the children chant. "We believe we can reach our learning potential ... We believe that Blaine will become a high-performing institution...
...normal childhood. But when Julia's condition worsened, the 8-year-old refused the recommended heart-and-lung transplant, and her parents reluctantly agreed with her decision. Before her death, Julia asked her mother to promise to help other children. "You got me home," she told Margaret in the sign language she used to communicate. "You've got to get them home...
...Vincent van Gogh painting. In 2004 a family sued Taylor, claiming that View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Rémy had been confiscated by the Nazis from their ancestor, who fled Germany in 1939. Taylor insisted the work had passed through two Jewish art dealers without any sign of coercion before she paid $257,000 for it at a 1963 Sotheby's auction...
...country can't find a way to save its fractured families, any hope of preventing rapid depopulation might be lost. "In the last 15 years, [child] abuse cases have increased so much," says Masami Ohinata, a developmental psychology professor at Keisen University. "I consider this increase an SOS sign that tells us we live in a society where parenting is very hard...
...CORRECTION: Though it wasn't clear if the phrase from the draft speech was actually the Pope's or that of then Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, it was excised from the official version released by the Vatican. It was an early sign that there might be problems in the way the new pontiff and his aides respond to diplomatic crises...