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...taking a toll on Iraq's citizens. While most maintain a remarkable resilience in the face of the suffering, there is also a growing sense of bitterness. Hamid, for instance, used to be a wedding singer and hopes one day to become a kindergarten music teacher; it has been months since we last heard him sing. Iraqis who work for foreign companies, especially American ones, are in double jeopardy--branded as traitors and infidels by terrorist groups and identified as lucrative targets by kidnapping gangs. A year ago, we would have accompanied this article with a picture of our Baghdad...
...percent African American. At the same time, the phenomenon is essentially non-existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably explain the differences in overall performance among the nation’s schools...
...Nieman Foundation also expects Fellows to take on the role of teacher by participating in undergraduate discussions and by mentoring aspiring journalists on campus. Many, like Sarwar, already have advice to impart. She urged young journalists to embrace honest observations and analysis—even over a pretense of perfect objectivity...
...routinely worked to death or executed by their captors. But later, when the locals retrieved her parents' bodies from the forest, she was old enough to realize they were dead, and that Burmese soldiers had killed them. Nang Nang is 6 now. "She's still heartbroken," says her teacher, Hku Hseng Lu. "She cries a lot. Sometimes she gets angry and talks about revenge. I tell her stories to help her forget...
...other hand, it is not easy to shrug off. For in writing the play on which the film is based, Mark Medoff shrewdly, perhaps courageously, added an unexpected element to the mix. He permitted love--the real, sexual thing--to develop between that too-good teacher (played with a bit too much self-regard by William Hurt) and one of the school's charges...