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It took me ages to finish my memoir! And now, here is the book! I hope you will like it. Comments would be warmly appreciated. Thanks.
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Title: Bi Parchamaan, The Flagless Ones: An Iranian Refugee Family's Story
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A story of hope—and then despair. A story of courage—and then fear. A story of love found—and then love lost—a story of closeness—and then abandonment. A story of expectation—and then dejection. A story of optimism—and then wretchedness. A story of elation—and then degradation. A story of happiness—and then anguish. A story of anticipation—and then denial. A story of promises—and then lies. A story of good—and then evil. A story of euphoria—and then Hell. And, finally, at last, a story of perseverance, faith, determination, achievement and victory. Fleeing for their very lives and the lives of their children, an Iranian family finds heartbreak, agony, bigotry and hatred before finally finding the good that exists in some people . Weep and laugh with Hassan and his family as he reveals to the world the trials and difficulties of being a refugee cut off from his native land; needing, seeking and finally finding a helping hand.
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The closest relative we humans have in the huge population of invertebrates that blanket the earth is a tiny, inconspicuous flower-like marine critter that is amazing in its abilities to regenerate its damaged tissue from its blood vessels alone.
Scientists believe this odd character, just one of many spineless animals known as "sea squirts," or "tunicates," may hold the genetic secrets that might eventually allow humans to regrow a lost arm, or accept a heart from someone else without danger of rejection.
But, alas, if this unpretentious little animal is going to be our medical salvation, we may have to accept its dark side. It can also foul our beaches and our boats, and smother crabs and oysters while killing off much native wildlife. And it feels right at home in a heavily polluted harbor.
Botryllus schlosseri, commonly known as the golden star, perhaps because it is frequently golden in color and looks kind of like a star, or a flower, or a blob, may be a bit player in the world of animals without a backbone, which make up 95 percent of the species in the animal world. But it could have a huge future in the world of medicine.
It is believed to have been the first invertebrate to have a vasculature heart system, similar to that in humans, with blood cells traveling through blood vessels. But astonishingly, it can regrow everything just with its blood vessels.
"The whole body can regenerate from the vasculature alone, the heart, digestive system, sophisticated tissues," Ayelet Voskoboynik of Stanford University's Stem Cell Institute said in releasing a study. "And it can do this relatively fast, probably using stem cells."
Voskoboynik and an international team of scientists have just sequenced the genome of Botryllus schlosseri, which we shall henceforth just call the "star." The hope is that once scientists understand how the genes operate in the star, they will be able to come up with new treatments for a wide range of human diseases.
The star has only 580 million base pairs of DNA, compared to 3 billion base pairs in humans, but there is a surprising amount of common ground. The researchers found that 77 percent of human genes were also present in the star.
"We found genes that are critical to the development and function of the vertebrate heart, and eye, and the ability to hear," they report in their study, published in the journal eLIFE. "Mutations in these genes are implicated in a variety of human diseases and disorders, including heart diseases, cataracts, and deafness."
There is reason to believe the star may hold the genetic secrets that have plagued cardiac patients who have received a new heart only to have it rejected by their own body.
The star forms colonies comprised of individuals that form clusters in various patterns, star-like, flowers, or opals. But amazingly, when one colony meets another, it can either merge with the other, gradually becoming one, or both can remain separate, suggesting the animal knows how to accept or reject another set of organs. It would be good to know exactly what that is.
Although usually orange to yellow in color, it can also be red, black, green, or an assortment of colors, and it can form many different shapes, depending on which solid substance the colony latches onto, frequently the bottom of a boat, or a piece of valuable marine gear in near-shore areas. And that's where the conflict comes in.
Colonies can join together to form large mats that cover everything from rocks to boat hulls to other marine organisms, frequently killing native plants and animals. It is very invasive, as demonstrated by its rapid growth along both North American coasts.
The star is believed to be a native of Europe that somehow made its way to the East Coast a few decades ago, probably by clinging to the hull of a ship. In the mid 1940s it was discovered in San Francisco Bay and has since been found from Baja California to British Columbia.
But while it may be a nuisance to some, it seems destined to be a hero to others. That role was foreseen by Charles Darwin in the mid 1800s.
Darwin thought these odd but fascinating creatures might help us understand how life evolved to include vertebrates, like us.
That doesn't seem all that far out, now that we know we share so many genes with a distant relative most of us never knew we had.


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Played in all 17 contests ... Earned All-Ivy League honorable mention ... Ranked second on the Crimson with five goals and 11 points (5-1-11) ... Led Harvard with three game-winning tallies ... Handed out an assist on game-winning goal at Colgate (Sept. 9) ... Tallied the game-winning goal at Quinnipiac (Sept. 12) ... Scored a goal against No. 5/12 Boston College (Sept. 15) ... Tallied a goal at Brown (Oct. 13) ... Notched a goal against Holy Cross (Oct. 16) ... Netted game-winning goal in overtime against Brown (Oct. 24).
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Played in 15 games ... Ranked second on the Crimson with five goals and was tied for third with 11 points (5-1-11) ... Scored game-winning goal in 87th minute in 2-1 victory over Elon (Sept. 4) ... Assisted on tally in win against Massachusetts (Sept. 9) ... Tallied a goal at Rhode Island (Sept. 18) ... Netted a goal in win over New Hampshire (Sept. 25) ... Scored a goal at Cornell (Oct. 8) ... Found the back of the net in victory against Siena (Oct. 11).
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Appeared in all 17 games, starting eight ... Ranked fourth on the Crimson with eight points on two goals and two assists ... Tallied first collegiate goal at South Florida (Sept. 12) ... Assisted on game-winning goal at Massachusetts (Sept. 26) ... Handed out an assist in win over Yale (Oct. 2) ... Netted a goal at Fairfield (Nov. 11).
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Played soccer all four years at Sacred Heart Prep … Captained soccer team as a senior … Named team's Most Valuable Player all four years … West Catholic Athletic League Freshman of the Year … Two-time All-WCAL first team selection … All-West Bay Athletic League first team as a junior and senior … San Mateo Times all-league first team as a senior … Four-time Palo Alto Weekly all-league first team honoree … Excalibur all-tournament team in 2010 … High school team was Central Coast Section champions in 2009 … Played for De Anza Force '91 soccer club … Club team won the State Cup three times, the Golden State Soccer League Championship in 2009 and was a Super Group finalist at the Surf Cup … Recipient of the Patricia Keil Student-Athlete Award … Member of the National Math and History Honor Societies … Royal Conservatory of Music level six pianist … Member of the advanced chorus at Sacred Heart Prep.
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As half of the design mastermind behind Swanson-Ollis Interiors in Los Angeles, Swanson first honed his artistic eye in the Kansas City area. Swanson earned an interior design degree from K-State University then headed toward the coast with business partner Dan Ollis. Aside from their exquisite work and The Bristol and Yia's Yia's Euro Bistro in Kansas City, the design duo has shared expertise for HGTV's avid followers.
Kansas City has its fair share of stylish and successful men. Golfer Tom Watson, NFL star Brandon Flowers and motor racing driver and political activist Scott Tucker head the list when it comes to sports.
Celebrity photographer Greg Gorman, designer Hal Swanson and sculptor Tom Corbin are all hugely successful in the arts world and when it comes to movies and television Kansas City can boast a stellar cast of actors who call KC home. Ed Asner, Brad Pitt, Chris Cooper, Tuc Watkins and Paul Rudd all come from Kansas City. Kansas City's most famous export is jazz, and saxophonist Bobby Watson epitomizes what KC and jazz is all about.


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've been a big fan for Bowers & Wilkins for years, having outfitted several rooms with their speakers. I recently discovered they've announced a new iPod speaker system, as the baby brother of their award-winning Zeppelin speaker system. The Zepplin mini seems interesting, as they've again lowered the price point to help put B&W quality into the hands of everyday consumers. The speaker begins shipping October 20th, for $399 and I hope to pick one up shortly thereafter and will be sure to post a review.
Here's the official B&W announcement – Posted on Monday, 14 September 2009 @ http://blog.bowers-wilkins.com/theinsider/?p=179
Bowers & Wilkins' iconic Zeppelin redefined what could be expected from an iPod speaker system. Digital music needn't be harsh, brash, or unpalatable – it can be delivered in glorious high-fidelity. Plus, the device that provided this amazing sound could be a thing of beauty. Two years and an unprecedented collection of glowing reviews and prestigious awards later, Zeppelin is joined by Zeppelin Mini.
Zeppelin Mini attains the same high standards in sound quality and design set by Zeppelin, but in a more compact form. It is reduced in size, not in sound, and has amazing volume levels for such a diminutive package. It's ideal for lounges just like its larger sibling, but it can easily be slotted into a bedroom, kitchen, or student digs.
Key differentiating features include an updated docking arm. On the original this innovative solution worked incredibly well, allowing hassle-free mounting of any iPod, and easy access to Apple's user-friendly interface. These qualities remain, but the addition of USB connectivity allows Zeppelin Mini to bypass the analogue output stage of any iPod, providing access to the very best digital sound an iPod has to offer.
From this beneficial acoustic starting point Bowers & Wilkins' decades of experience producing the very best speakers for demanding customers such as Abbey Road Studios, and advanced Digital Signal Processing combine to create a sonic experience that belies the compact stature of Zeppelin Mini.
The recent work Bowers & Wilkins has undertaken in the area of DSP-intensive projects such as the in-car system for the new Jaguar XJ have provided knowledge and advances found in Zeppelin Mini, in the same way the legendary NautilusTM informs all Bowers & Wilkins current speakers. For example, a key Bowers & Wilkins technology such as FlowportTM combines with digital advances such as Digital EQ to provide a clean, room filling sound, with base levels that have to be heard to be believed.
But Zeppelin is about more than amazing sound – it has been hailed by many as a design classic – and the iconic design of the original is reflected in the Zeppelin Mini's subtle curves. Add to this the attention to detail in terms of materials and construction that Bowers & Wilkins is justifiably famous for and it's a worthy addition to the Zeppelin family.
There are major design advances, too, including an updated version of the docking arm. On Zeppelin Mini it rotates 90 degrees, allowing you even easier access to your music through the Cover Flow menu system. You can also watch videos and enhanced podcasts in this manner.
The Zeppelin Mini also adds the ability to stream music direct from your PC or Mac via a dedicated USB socket. This allows you even more flexibility in terms of how you play your music, and any computer system will benefit from the improved sound quality and digital processing that Zeppelin Mini's advanced Digital Signal Processing and drive unit technology offer. This USB connection also has the advantage of letting you synchronise your iPod or iPhone with your computer.
As Bowers & Wilkins has proved with Zeppelin, constant attention to iPod developments and customer demands through the medium of freely available firmware upgrades allows Zeppelin users to keep pace with new technology. This level of support will again be key to the continued success of Zeppelin Mini.
Zeppelin Mini boasts all the quality of the original Zeppelin, but in a more compact package perfect for smaller spaces.


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BALTIMORE – UMBC track and field senior Keri Wilson (Columbia, Md./Long Reach) broke the UMBC school record in the 3000m steeplechase Saturday afternoon at the Bison Outdoor Classic in Lewisburg, Pa. Meanwhile, more personal records fell and multiple athletes jumped onto UMBC's all-time top-ten list as much of the track and field team competed at the Sea Ray Relays at the University of Tennessee on Friday and Saturday.
Wilson, who came into the day second on the school list, bettered her personal-record by almost five and a half seconds and completed the track in 11:29.56. The senior broke the previous record (11:33.15) held by Hannah Benjamin who set the mark back in 2001.
In addition, sophomore Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) broke his personal record in the 1500m with a new time of 3:55.59.
In Knoxville, freshman Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) continued her strong outdoor campaign, bettering her mark in the 400m hurdles, placing fifth at the Tennessee meet with a personal-best time of 1:02.50 which sits second all-time.
In the 800m run, sophomore Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) improved her personal-best with a time of 2:14.28 that still ranks her fourth in school history.
Although not breaking any records, freshman Mercedes Jackson (Huntington, Md./Huntington) picked up two top-ten finishes, placing fifth in the 200m (24.45) and sixth in the 100m (11.98).
In the field events, senior Chrissy Robinson (Lusby, Md./Patuxent) improved her mark in the discus with a toss of 41.35m (135'8") and remains third in Retriever history.
For the men, junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) jumped to third in the record book in the hammer throw with a personal-best toss of 52.15m (171'1").
Classmate Sean Kshimetski (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) also improved his standing in the UMBC records, moving to sixth in the javelin with a throw of 50.04m (164'2").
In the jumps, junior Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) and sophomore Mo Drammeh (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) both finished fourth in the triple jump and high jump, respectively. Obemeata recorded a leap of 14.52m (47'7.75") to set a new personal record while Drammeh matched his career best clearing a height of 2.00m (6'6.75").
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One of the best things that's happened to me as an author this past year has been being a part of a writing group. Not just any writing group, mind you—a magical one! Now, all the ladies in my group know that fantasy is hardly my forte (or interest whatsoever), so I'm not talking about talking animals or vampires showing up every week to the cafe and ordering coffee while wrestling prose alongside us muggles. When I say magical, I mean that our group has been a cauldron (sorry!) of momentum, community, encouragement and direction for a group of women who needed all of the above.
While living in New Zealand for six months I wrote full-time and finished the first draft of my manuscript. I enjoyed the independent work and it was nice to get all my thoughts onto the page without showing anyone. But when I moved to Seattle I started to feel thirsty for creative community, people to share the isolating writing process with.
I attended a local writing group and author talks and looked for an established community to link into. But nothing quite seemed to click.
I heard that Natalie Goldberg (writing muse and author of Writing Down the Bones) was going to be in town speaking at a Writers Conference, so I rustled up a few friends to attend with me. That changed everything. Natalie said that her biggest writing trick is to agree a public meeting place with a writer friend and say, "Next Monday, 8pm. You, me, cute cafe." They'd meet and just start writing for twenty minutes. Then they'd stop and read what they'd written, no matter how awful or brilliant, and then do another timed writing.
After the talk, eager to action Natalie's tip, I put it out there. "How about it? Next Monday? 8pm?"
They were in!
Then, within a few days, friends of friends were expressing interest. They were in too! And then we were six. English teachers, mothers, young adult fantasy enthusiasts (whose fantasy writing I actually love, so it must be good), memoirists, screenwriters and the next Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, gathering together weekly for coffee, pie and timed writings.
Seven months later, two manuscripts have been finished. Film schools have been applied to and narrative arcs formed and re-formed. We invited local author Janna Cawrse Esarey to talk with us about the writing and publishing process and have a retreat planned for a few weeks' time. We also started a critique element, so that if someone has a chapter they want advice on, they bring it in and we share our impressions, what works, what feels flat, where the energy is. It's scary, but empowering.
I've heard time and again that the most important thing to do when you are pushing into any sort of creative endeavor is to surround yourself with like-minded people to spur you on (and remind you that you're not crazy for spending years on a project with no guarantee of payment!).
If you're looking to start a writing group, here are my tips:
- Research any existing groups in the area first on meetup.com and go and see what they're like. Who knows, you may find the perfect fit! If you do need to reinvent the wheel, then at least you'll have some inspiration, thoughts on what works and doesn't, and you'll certainly meet some interesting folks. Just get out there and do something that gets you going in the right direction!
- If you want to start your own group, don't wait for a full attendance roster to be handed to you. Start with one writer friend and be bold in getting the word out. I was surprised to see how many people popped out of the woodwork once they heard about the opportunity.
- Find a location with a big corner table and bottomless coffee that doesn't mind your funny group typing away silently and reading intimate yet therapeutic essays. (It's amazing what comes out when you start tapping away at the keyboard after a long day!). Our location is by no means the coolest place in Seattle, but the staff is friendly and happy to let us do our thang.
- Six or seven people has been a good size for us.
- Start with two timed writing sessions for twenty minutes each. We love the pomodoro timer widget our on dashboards that tell us when we're done in their robotic, tomato-y voices.
- It's always awkward to share our unedited, imperfect writing, but like jumping into a cold lake, it's stimulating. (I say this like jumping into cold lakes is routine for me, it's not.) Instead of justifying and going on and on about how crap what you've just written is, just read. Perfectionism is the enemy of the creative mind, save it for the editing stage.
- Your group will probably develop over time, based on your needs. Roll with it and develop organically. We introduced the "critique time" element a few months after we started, once we were really comfortable and knew each others voices.
How has community (on-line or in the flesh) helped you in your creative pursuits? What's worked well for you in the past? What support are you craving?
{I'm loving this new header font from dafont.com by the way! What do you think? The "Journal Bandolier is from the cleverhands etsy shop—very clever indeed.}


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team (4-18, 2-11 PBC) dropped the school's annual Homecoming Game Saturday to Columbus State University (13-9, 8-5 PBC) 58-42 Saturday in the Centennial Center.
Freshman guard Shanteona Keys (Roswell, Ga.) led all scorers with 18 points, knocking down half of her shots from the floor (8-16) adding five boards and a pair of steals. Forward Belinda Schaafsma (Momence, Ill.) cleaned the glass to the tune of 17 rebounds, as the freshman had nine at halftime. She added eight points as well to the cause.
The Bobcats were done in by turnovers tonight, coughing it up 25 times while getting 14 in a sloppy contest. GC was also out-shot 32 percent (20-63) to 27 percent (15-56). The 'Cats controlled the boards to a 48-38 advantage.
Dominique Gilbert led Columbus State with 12 points, as Shan Basley chipped in 10. The Cougars had a 21-0 advantage in bench points.
The last time a Bobcat had 17 rebounds was Chimere Jordan (2008-11) pulling down 17 against the University of Montevallo Feb. 23, 2011.
The Bobcats are back in action Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m., hosting North Georgia for the final home contest of the 2012 season.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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If you were a teenager in the 1990s with a pathetically empty social agenda every afternoon, chances are you spent some quality time with MTV video jockey Kennedy.
Like the annoying friend you endured in order to hang out with his hot sister, Kennedy was the chafing gateway to the coolness of the Nirvana generation. With both hands clutching a microphone and curly brown hair bobbing crazily about, Kennedy introduced videos with a voice that could cut glass.
But long before she was regaling a nation of transfixed teens, Kennedy was sneaking into Satyricon and hitting the mean streets of Lake Oswego.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery moved to Portland with her parents from Indianapolis when she was 3 years old. When she hit high-school age, it was off to the suburbs. As a student at Lakeridge High, she says, her teachers didn't recognize her awesome potential to introduce rock videos.
"I remember my guidance counselor saying that at the rate I was going I would amount to nothing," Kennedy, now 32, recalls. "At the same time, my calligraphy instructor believed in me, and guess who ended up getting an invitation to my wedding?"
Kennedy left Portland in 1990 and wound up as a disc jockey at Los Angeles' KROQ at the tender age of 19. Two years later, MTV scooped her up to host Alternative Nation, making her the envy of the flannel-clad masses.
In four years as a veejay, Kennedy picked up a reputation as something of an annoyance (Rolling Stone readers once voted her "Most Hated" veejay) as well as an outspoken conservative (she was a big fan of then-VP Dan Quayle). Today, she says she's more of a "small 'l' libertarian."
After leaving MTV, Kennedy went on to host several radio and television shows, including Friend or Foe? and Who Wants to Be Governor of California? on the Game Show Network. But it's her current work as a panelist on the VH1 show Best Week Ever that gives her a chance to rehash the older, more boisterous Kennedy.
"Being loud is something that has never left me," she says. "I'd be really bummed out if someone was, like, 'Be wackier.'"
Kennedy now lives in Los Angeles and continues to pursue TV projects. She's also a senior at UCLA, where she's majoring in--steady yourself--philosophy.
While the Dialogues of Plato may seem a far cry from the discography of Pearl Jam, Kennedy takes her metaphysics very seriously. She even took a recent trip to Greece to bask in the intellectual glow of the discipline's birthplace.
"I actually went into the cell where Socrates drank hemlock," she says. "Pretty cool, eh?"
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- Age of students: 4 - 16
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- Start dates: Flexible
No Prior Teaching Experience Required
Volunteer teaching in Cambodia is an ideal way to gain some truly rewarding work-experience. You don't need any formal teaching qualifications or a TEFL certificate, nor do you require previous teaching experience. Projects Abroad has fully trained staff to guide each volunteer's experience. Whether you want to volunteer during your gap year, career break or as part of an extended holiday, you will have an important role to play.
The impact you have on the lives of the children you work with will be long-lasting. You will also be part of a much wider volunteer network, which is making a really positive contribution to the communities in which we work.
Some Background on Cambodia
Due to a turbulent past and years of devastation, much of Cambodia's population haven't had the opportunity to receive a formal education. However, now that peace has been restored, many Cambodians have better access to schooling, which is now being encouraged for both boys and girls. As with many Asian countries, there is huge enthusiasm to learn foreign languages. With the recent upturn in tourism and international trade, a grasp of the English language means access to better jobs and ultimately better futures.
Projects Abroad works to improve the lives of some of the most neglected children in Cambodia by working closely with many local NGOs that focus on education. The number of children in need of education in the capital city of Phnom Penh is very high.
The free schools that do exist are often overcrowded, understaffed, poorly resourced and sometimes out of reach. Due to the difficulties associated with sending these children to schools, they often receive their education within NGO schools. It is here and in the charity funded schools that English teaching volunteers can really make a difference.
Teaching Placements in Cambodia
Teaching in the bustling city of Phnom Penh as a volunteer will open your eyes to the mix of great prosperity and poverty within Cambodia. Most of our Teaching placements are based in and around Phnom Penh, where you will teach children ranging in age from about 4-16 years old.
We work with two different types of schools: those with a formal structure, set curriculum, and more resources, and less formal schools in more deprived areas. Both types of school are officially registered as 'Child Safe' placements that adhere to child protection guidelines.
Teaching in More Formal Schools
The formal NGO schools with which we work employ full time local teachers and have a set curriculum. The staff are hard-working but lack the fluency of a native English speaker. Here you will start as an assistant, helping the local staff with a timetabled lesson. As you gain confidence you will also be able to take English lessons as the main teacher. These more structured schools are the best option if you have no formal teaching experience.
Teaching in Less Formal Schools
We also offer more informal Teaching placements for those who have taught previously or have experience working with children. These NGO-run placements operate in Phnom Penh's more deprived areas.
Here you can find groups of anything from 20 to 100 children who turn up each day to receive much-needed food and basic education, in addition to regular public schooling. You will be working independently with no set timetable. This gives you more flexibility but also makes it even more important that you take the time to plan and structure your lessons in advance.
Opportunity for Involvement in Extracurricular Activities
Put your talents to good use and be imaginative with your teaching to make learning fun and enjoyable. Through the use of materials, games and songs you can engage the children and make them eager to learn. You can also get involved with teaching other subjects, such as French, music or dance.
Regardless of the subject you teach, the ability to speak English will help the children to improve their futures. You will help the younger children grasp the basics whilst helping the older students to improve their skills and their confidence. The attention and time you give them is of enormous benefit.
You can read more detailed information about the aims of the project in our Cambodia Teaching Management Plan.
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How to Make Perfect Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes, with or without gravy, is an inexpensive side dish perfect for serving crowds at a holiday dinner. If you like mashed potatoes that have some texture, use a hand-held potato masher, which is also the easiest way to make them. The potatoes just go right back in the pot in which they were cooked and you mash away after adding the milk and butter.
However, you will never get completely smooth potatoes if you use a masher. Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Some folks just love lumpy mashed potatoes. Others can't get enough of the ultra-smooth variety. If you like them smooth and have the time, use a food mill or potato ricer. If you like them lumpy or are short on time, use a hand-held masher. No matter your preference, hardly anyone ever turns down mashed potatoes and they usually bring a smile to all the faces at the table.
A potato ricer is sort of like a giant garlic press. You put the boiled potatoes into a cup and then squeeze them out through small holes. A food mill is a sieve-like contraption that has a large, flat rotary mechanism that you turn via a handle and it presses the food through the sieve. But remember: Don't overlook that hand-held potato masher ― it works just fine.
Resist putting potatoes into a food processor, where they will turn gummy. The starch cells in the potatoes swell while cooking, and the action of the food processor breaks them down to such a degree that they burst. The result is a gluey texture. Actually, overworking the potatoes by any means (too much mashing) will turn the potatoes gummy.
Not all potatoes are created equal. Do not try to make mashed potatoes with waxy potatoes. You could try Yukon gold potatoes, which are an all-purpose potato. Their buttery flavor and color make wonderful mashed potatoes.
Perfect Mashed Potatoes
Special equipment: Potato ricer or food mill (optional), double boiler(optional)
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Yield: 10 servings
Four pounds (about 12 medium) russet potatoes (Idahos)
2 cups hot whole milk or half-and-half
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature, cut into pieces
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash the potatoes well, but don't peel them. Place them in a large stockpot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat; turn the heat down and simmer until tender, for about 30 minutes (although it may take up to 45 minutes).
When the potatoes are done, you should be able to insert a sharp knife tip easily. Drain in a colander and let cool slightly.
Boiling the tubers in their jackets keeps in all that subtle flavor.
Peel the potatoes. Cut or break them into large chunks and press them through a ricer or food mill right into the drained pot. Add the hot milk a bit at a time, whisking it in with a heavy wire whisk.
If you're not using a ricer or food mill, this is where you use a hand masher or an electric mixer, in which case you would mash or whip to your desired consistency. You may need a little extra milk, or you may not use all of it, depending on how dry the potatoes are. Whisk in the butter and season with salt and pepper.
Serve immediately, or keep warm covered in the top of a double boiler.
This recipe makes a large amount, so you can make a large double boiler by putting the potatoes in a large bowl set into a large pot filled with hot water. Covered, they may be held for 30 minutes this way.
Alternatively, pack the mashed potatoes into a buttered casserole dish, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight. Bring to room temperature before reheating. Reheat, uncovered, in the oven or microwave until heated through.
Mashed potatoes are pretty forgiving when it comes to reheating; use an oven temperature of around 350 degrees if you aren't using the microwave.


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Many people with low back pain feel as if their legs are weak. They
will still have normal strength in their leg muscles, but moving their legs
usually causes discomfort and gives them a sense of weakness.
True leg weakness leaves you unable to use some of your leg muscles normally.
This can happen when a
herniated disc presses on the nerve roots that make up
the sciatic nerve. Pressure on the nerve interferes with its ability to control
the leg muscles.
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CENTERVILLE, Mass.—Sophomore Olivia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) officially capped off the best week of her career and one of the top weeks in UMass Boston program history Thursday, when she was named the ECAC Division III Women's Basketball Player of the Week and selected to the D3Hoops.com Team of the Week.
Murphy becomes the first player in school history to earn the superfecta, as her ECAC and D3Hoops.com weekly honors came on top of already being named the Little East Conference Player of the Week and the New England Women's Basketball Association Player of the Week.
The sophomore forward picked up all four awards after averaging 30 points and 12 rebounds in a pair of wins last week.
She started the week off with an incredible 33 points on 15-made field in just 26 minutes of play in a 79-41 win over Mount Ida College. The 33 points tied the program-record for the most points in a single-game, while Murphy's 15-made field goals reset the program's record for a single-game.
Murphy was just as impressive in a 66-56 win over Keene State College Saturday. She registered a game-high 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead UMass Boston to their program-record third-straight win over the Owls and a 1-0 start in Little East Conference play. The sophomore also added three blocks and two steals to lead UMass Boston to a comeback victory over the red-hot Owls.
UMass Boston will look to extend their winning streak to five in a row Thursday when the Beacons travel to take on Westfield State University at 7 p.m.


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Dr. Chuck Norlin reviews medical content for Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Dr. Norlin is a Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also Director of the Medical Home Portal (www.medicalhomeportal.org), a Web-based information resource to support primary care physicians and families in caring and advocating for children with special health care needs. Dr. Norlin is Director of the Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve Healthcare Quality and is also the Medical Director and Principle Investigator of the Children's Healthcare Improvement Collaboration.
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1. What words would you use to describe this house?
2. The original farmhouse that James Roosevelt purchased in 1867 is concealed by impressive renovations dating from 1915. Why do you think Sara Roosevelt and her son, Franklin, choose this style of architecture rather than leaving the building as a farmhouse?
3. Besides the need to modernize plumbing and introduce electricity to the house, what other events in Franklin Roosevelt's life might have prompted this 1915 renovation?
4. What challenges did Springwood present to the partially paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt?
5. Knowing that Franklin Roosevelt and his family lived in this house and its surroundings, explain how you think he could possibly have understood the problems of a third of his nation, Depression-era American families who were out of work, out of hope, ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-fed?
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These medicines are available as pills and chewable
Leukotriene pathway modifiers improve
lung function and decrease
asthma symptoms.
Leukotriene pathway modifiers are
used to treat people with persistent asthma who need daily medicine to
control inflammation of the airways leading to the lungs
(bronchial tubes).
These medicines may be given along with
corticosteroids to control
mild persistent and moderate persistent asthma. They
may be especially helpful for people whose asthma is triggered by exercise,
aspirin, or allergies.
Different types of medicines are often
used together in the treatment of asthma. Treatment for asthma
depends on a person's age, his or her type of asthma, and how well the
treatment is controlling asthma symptoms.
Your doctor will work with you to help find the number and
dose of medicines that work best.
Research shows that compared
with a
placebo, leukotriene pathway modifiers:
But leukotriene pathway modifiers are not as effective
as inhaled corticosteroids. And adding leukotrienes to inhaled corticosteroids
is not as effective as adding long-acting beta2-agonists to inhaled
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
Leukotriene pathway modifiers can cause more serious problems such as mood changes, depression, hallucinations, and suicidal thinking, but this is rare.
In rare cases, zafirlukast and zileuton cause
liver damage. If the liver is being affected by zafirlukast or zileuton, liver
function tests will show increased liver enzyme levels in the blood, usually
within the first 2 months of treatment.
Montelukast causes fewer
side effects than other leukotriene pathway modifiers. It is less likely to
affect the liver, so liver function monitoring is not needed.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
The U.S. National Asthma
Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) recommends leukotriene pathway
modifiers as an alternative treatment for people who have mild or persistent asthma.
Preferred medicines are inhaled corticosteroids with or without long-acting
People who take
zafirlukast and medicine to prevent blood clots (such as warfarin) need to
have their clotting times checked regularly. When used with blood-thinning
medicine, zafirlukast can increase the risk of bleeding. Zafirlukast also may
cause problems when taken with other medicines, such as blood pressure
medicines, aspirin, and some seizure medicines. Before you take zafirlukast, make sure your doctor knows
that you are taking any of those medicines.
Montelukast can be given to people age 2 and older. It is given once a
day. Zafirlukast can be given to people age 5 and older. It is given twice a
day. Zileuton has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for use in children.
People who are taking zafirlukast or
zileuton need to have liver function tests several times during the first 6
months of treatment. People who are taking theophylline along with zileuton may
need to take less theophylline.
People who take leukotriene
pathway modifiers may be more likely to take their medicine regularly, because
it can be taken orally and has a more immediate effect on symptoms than some
other medicines such as inhaled corticosteroids.
pathway modifiers are not used to treat
asthma attacks.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
CitationsDennis RJ, et al. (2010). Asthma in adults, search date June 2008. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: www.clinicalevidence.com.Keeley D, McKean M (2006). Asthma and other wheezing disorders in children, search date October 2005. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.National Institutes of Health (2007). National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (NIH Publication No. 08–5846). Available online: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/asthma/index.htm.
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When attending a concert in the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium, visitors to Washington and even natives of the city often surmise that they are sitting inside a monument to the nation's thirtieth President. The auditorium is actually named for its donor, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a patron of chamber music who put up the money for it while Calvin Coolidge, no relation, was in the White House. The capital contains no significant memorial to Coolidge, who is also the last President not to have a government-run Presidential library, one of those ever larger pyramids now speckling a land supposedly without pharaohs. A portrait of the thirtieth President was kept in the Cabinet Room by the fortieth, Ronald Reagan, but, since 1989, the stern-faced, ginger-haired likeness of Coolidge has commanded no special reverence within the house he inhabited from 1923 to 1929.
Coolidge is, in American memory, a cluster of anecdotes, a minor legend embraced largely for its irony: the taciturn figure at odds with the jazzed-up, boozing, and crazily acquisitive decade over which he came to preside; a tortoise reigning over hares, cutting budgets while the citizenry bought their way, on margin, toward doom. Only a few years after the Great War turned the United States into a world power, he set out to shrink the size and reach of its government, to hark back instead of race forward. He was not at ease among automobiles—a Ford Runabout once accidentally struck him on Main Street in Northampton, Massachusetts—and, during the festive frenzy that followed Lindbergh's return from Paris, he asked that the flier change from a white suit to a dark one before he would escort him to church. William Allen White, the Kansas newspaperman, nicely captured the mismatch between President and nation in the title of his Coolidge biography, "A Puritan in Babylon" (1938). As White saw it, America felt moved to "erect this pallid shrunken image of its lost ideals and bow down before it in subconscious repentance for its iniquities."
Sinclair Lewis, the literary Nobel laureate of Coolidge's era, detested both the idol and its worshippers. During the President's last full year in office, he published "The Man Who Knew Coolidge," less a novel than a grindingly obvious series of monologues by Lowell Schmaltz, an office-supplies salesman from George F. Babbitt's fictional Midwestern city of Zenith. An endlessly digressive gabber, Schmaltz is a man who'll tell you that a sense of humor means more than intellect and who'll try to gain admittance to a New York speakeasy with his Zenith Elks Club card. He pronounces Calvin Coolidge—whom he lies about having known at Amherst College—to be a leader by virtue of "his profound thought, his immovable courage, his genial and democratic manners," and much besides. Lewis's book, which annoyed Coolidge, is an extreme example of the imitative fallacy, by which an author replicates the disagreeable characteristics—in this case, self-satisfaction and verbosity—that he seeks to suggest. Coolidge himself winds up unscathed, a sort of gray white whale that has eluded its baleful hunter.
Silent Cal has always been ideal for cameos in period novels and films, showing up to say "You lose" to the woman who bet she could get him to say more than two words. But there is probably just one other novel, aside from Lewis's, in which he figures importantly: John Derbyshire's strangely absorbing "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream" (1996), about a onetime Chinese Red Guard who immigrates to America and develops a fascination with the laconic leader. "Clutching resolutely at truths learned on a farm" in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, Coolidge is a Confucian moralist who finally appears in the dream promised by the novel's title: "I suppose you've read all my biographers?" he says to the narrator.
The latest of these is Amity Shlaes, who in 2007 published "The Forgotten Man," an economic history in which she argued that, between 1929 and 1940, "from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great." Americans should stop "glorifying the New Deal," she thinks, and disdains even the meddlesomeness of the Republican Administration that preceded it. "Coolidge" (HarperCollins) evidently represents the next initiative in Shlaes's revisionist campaign: in it, the author blows a bugle for Silent Cal, "a rare kind of hero: a minimalist president, an economic general of budgeting and tax cuts." In her view, "economic heroism is subtler than other forms of heroism, harder to appreciate."
Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg View, is not attempting much subtlety herself. She is a trustee of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, and her biography is unblushing in its mission to secure a new deal for the laissez-faire Chief Executive whom Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, judged to have been "weaned on a pickle." To Shlaes, Coolidge's silences are golden; his "inaction reflects strength." Among American Presidents, he is, she argues, "our great refrainer," an epithet that doesn't cry out for an obelisk, or even an auditorium, but which she urges upon us with an unflagging nineteen-twenties sort of pep. Shlaes seems engaged not so much in history as in leafletting, pushing her neglected subject back onto a platform that he departed in 1929, prematurely but also in the nick of time.
Coolidge came from "the ones who stayed," those who didn't flee Vermont—a land as green as Ireland and nearly as harsh—in the middle of the nineteenth century. Calvin grew up hearing cautionary tales about the woes that indebtedness had brought upon neighbors and family, and he got his first glimpse of political life at Plymouth town meetings, selling popcorn and apples while his father, a storekeeper and a legislator, participated in the proceedings. Victoria Coolidge, the boy's romantic, melancholy mother, died when he was twelve. From his grandfather Calvin Galusha Coolidge, young Cal inherited an unyielding forty-acre parcel, the family's "limekiln lot," with the stipulation that his own children eventually receive it, too. "The language the grandfather had chosen rendered the bequest even less valuable," Shlaes explains. "One could hardly borrow against something that could not be given up. The purpose of such an inheritance, the whole family knew, was not merely to pass something on; it was to tie his grandson to the land."
Once grown, Calvin Coolidge, as he put it in "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge" (1929), "reverted to Massachusetts," where his family had been during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He began his student days at Amherst as an "ouden," unwanted by the fraternities and thus, Shlaes says, "as much town as gown." At boarding-house tables, he picked up a measure of social skill that developed into a mild prowess in speechmaking and debate. In time, Coolidge got himself elected the Class of 1895's Grove Orator and secured membership in Phi Gamma Delta. Like other Amherst boys of his era, he fell under the spell of Professor Charles Garman, "a mystifier, a charmer of young men, with an edge of hocus pocus," who, according to Shlaes, "taught his own private blend of psychology, philosophy, politics, and ethics." Something in the otherwise wary young Coolidge thrummed to Garman's hymning of individuality, property, and modest social service. But, mostly, Coolidge was learning how to rise, in barely detectable increments, through hard work and steady application.
After graduation, he read law—and the local mood—at a small Northampton firm. Shlaes portrays him in this period as a man who was drawn to women livelier than he was. He met the vivacious Grace Goodhue, a teacher at Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf, in the spring of 1904. Calvin heard Grace laughing through a window; she'd just noticed the bachelor lawyer shaving with his hat on. Once they were an item, the joke became: "Miss Goodhue had taught the deaf to hear; now she might be able to teach the mute to speak." Today, Mrs. Coolidge's White House portrait—she's posed in a red dress alongside a white collie—charms visitors far more than her husband's does.
While handling humdrum cases, he made a successful run for the city council and a losing one for the school committee. The second experience was one he never repeated during his long slog to the White House, through the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Northampton mayoralty, the state senate, the lieutenant governorship, the governor's office, and the Vice-Presidency. It is doubtful that any other American President was ever on the ballot so often or so successfully. H. L. Mencken, in his obituary for Coolidge, felt compelled to point out that America's greatest business champion had remained "on the public payroll . . . without a break for exactly thirty years." Coolidge understood that all politics was not only local but also personal. Examining the returns from the Northampton mayoral race in 1909, he noted, "The nearer I got to my house or office, the better I did, and it was the opposite way with the other fellow."
In the state legislature, Coolidge experienced his foremost political realization. As he later said, "It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." When he was senate president, he counted it progress when, between 1914 and 1915, the number of measures adopted dropped from seven hundred and ninety-six to six hundred and sixty-eight. During his years in local and state politics, Coolidge did take a number of forward-looking positions: he favored woman suffrage, voted for a minimum wage, and, as a Yankee able to get his share of the burgeoning Irish-Catholic vote, was generally sympathetic to immigration. But he remained ambivalent about the Progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and felt that, after so much reform, a time had come to "give administration a chance to catch up with legislation." In the three-way Presidential race of 1912, he stuck with Taft and avoided T.R.'s Bull Moose insurgency—something that Alice Roosevelt Longworth probably didn't forget. That same year, Coolidge, when he was asked to help mediate the "Bread and Roses" strike of millworkers in Lawrence, got a bellyful of the I.W.W. (the Wobblies) and became more reflexively sympathetic to business. He didn't calcify, but he can be said to have shrunk. The process, as depicted by Shlaes, will win the admiration of conservative Republicans whose gorges still rise whenever they hear liberal Democrats speak, with lordly condescension, of a Dole or a McCain or a Hagel who has "grown."
In 1920, Coolidge became the only man to defeat Franklin Roosevelt in a national election, an especially inspiring fact to readers signing on for Shlaes's corrective mission. The men faced off for the Vice-Presidency on tickets headed by Senator Warren G. Harding and Governor James Cox, both from Ohio. Coolidge gained his spot almost entirely as a result of the way, as governor, he had handled a strike by the Boston police. Expected to compromise with the officers, whose grievances he recognized as real, Coolidge surprised the electorate by doing an end run around the mayor, firing the strikers, and sending in the State Guard to deal with violence and looting in the city. He sent a telegram to Samuel Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, saying that "there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody comma anywhere comma any time stop." Like Byron, this least Byronic of men awoke to find himself famous. President Wilson, who had been travelling around the country urging approval of the League of Nations, called Coolidge's quick reëlection to the governorship a "victory for law and order." (When firing the federal air-traffic controllers sixty years later, Ronald Reagan no doubt looked up at that Coolidge portrait.) Narrative is rarely Shlaes's strong suit—she is much more interested in economic ideas—but the police strike provides her book with a propulsive and satisfying stretch.
For all Coolidge's sudden popularity, his Vice-Presidential nomination required a rebellion by rank-and-file delegates. They were restive about being shut out of the smoke-filled Chicago hotel room where Harding had been given the top spot. Coolidge remained at home in Boston. "Nominated for vice president," he told his wife after getting the phone call. "You are not going to accept it, are you?" she asked. "I suppose I shall have to," he answered.
The Republicans' victory, with its promised return to "normalcy," was probably sealed when, on September 16, 1920, anarchists bombed Wall Street and killed thirty-eight people. By the following March, Calvin and Grace Coolidge had moved into the Willard Hotel, more or less next door to the White House; their sons remained mostly at school. The Vice-Presidency, still in its Throttlebottom days, proved unsatisfying to a man who had preferred executive posts to legislative ones among all those he'd already held. He was especially frustrated by being the presiding figurehead of a Senate dominated by the Republican majority leader, Henry Cabot Lodge. Months could go by without his seeing Harding—a blessing in disguise, because it kept him at a distance from the wicked dens of the "Ohio Gang." As soon emerged, Harding's Secretary of the Interior took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from oilmen while overseeing the government's Teapot Dome oil reserves, and his director of the Veterans' Bureau made vast sums selling off its hospital supplies.
Shlaes's readers will suspect that she's getting ready to overhaul Harding, too—a heavier lift, but one that seems already under way, with her references to his "boldness," his establishment of a budget bureau, his cuts to defense spending and veto of a profligate veterans' bonus. Conducting a sentimental head count of the Senate, Shlaes convinces herself that its members "loved Harding and had shown him that by refusing to override any of his five regular vetoes." The President may have said "yes" a little too often, she concedes, but he comes across mostly as a victim of his unscrupulous Cabinet members. Passing lightly over the Teapot Dome scandal, Shlaes refers mildly to "the troubles that had dogged" Harding. He died in August, 1923, probably of a heart attack, in the middle of a West Coast speaking tour.
Coolidge's ascent to the Presidency occurred in a tiny, Rockwellian tableau. He was sworn in by his father, a notary public, by the light of a kerosene lamp, after word of Harding's death reached Plymouth Notch, where the Vice-President was vacationing. "I believe I can swing it," the new President was heard to say as he set off for Washington. The feel of the White House changed almost as soon as he got there. "The atmosphere was as different as a New England front parlor is from a back room in a speakeasy," Alice Longworth observed. Coolidge set to work with a new secretary, C. Bascom Slemp, a former congressman who seems to have been named by Nathanael West.
The President picked up two pairs of scissors, one to cut spending and the other to cut tax rates. "I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue," he declared, admitting to "a sort of obsession" with the task of trimming. He met every Friday morning with Herbert Lord, his budget director, so that the two of them could draw lines through the smallest items. "Post office bags," Shlaes notes, "could be made of plain gray canvas, not the traditional white with blue stripes: savings, $50,000 a year." Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Treasury Secretary, foresaw "a great virtuous cycle" that could be set in motion by "scientific taxation," or what, sixty years later, the Reagan White House would revive as supply-side economics. If taxes were cut, economic activity would expand and revenue would thus actually grow. Coolidge got less of a cut for the highest earners than he wanted (Alice Longworth's husband, the House majority leader, compromised away much of Mellon's bill), but he took another crack at the issue in the Presidential term he won in 1924. With an economy more than revived from its post-First World War slump, Coolidge, "a Scrooge who begat plenty," took fifty-four per cent of the popular vote in a three-man race that included the Progressive Party's Robert La Follette.
Shlaes impresses readers with the single-mindedness of Coolidge's pursuit, though she makes us aware, sometimes almost inadvertently, of blind spots in his peripheral vision: the free-market President remained mostly sympathetic to tariffs and took the peculiar position that it was more appropriate for states than it was for the federal government to award bonuses to former soldiers of the United States Army. Regular veterans' benefits "were about equivalent to all the payments made for civilian government together, and larger than any other single kind of payment by the federal government." The only permanent way to reduce that sum was to have permanent peace, and one guesses that the chance of such a utopian linkage helped move Coolidge to support, with whatever reluctance and delay, an international pact outlawing war, the brainchild of his Secretary of State, Frank Kellogg. Shlaes declares that Coolidge "succeeded where both Wilson and Harding had failed in winning a great multilateral treaty that united not only a party or a nation but the world." The author's hurrah doesn't, however, linger in the ear as long as the line that Senator Hiram Johnson used to characterize the Kellogg-Briand pact: "A helmless ship, a houseless street, a wordless book, a swordless sheath."
Coolidge was not quite the "darling of the gods" that Mencken pronounced him. A year into his Presidency, his sixteen-year-old son, Calvin Coolidge, Jr., died from blood poisoning acquired through a blister he got while playing tennis on the White House lawn. The Coolidges' grief was, in its way, as intense as what the Lincolns had suffered when their son Willie died, in 1862. Something changed between Cal and Grace, though Shlaes never really explains the subsequent "tensions," or conclusively explores the suspected flirtation between Grace and a Secret Service man that is supposed to have infuriated the President in the summer of 1927. Whatever the case, Coolidge was already tiring of the Presidency. His last two years in office involved a number of "legislative humiliations," with Congress laying out more money for farm subsidies, the merchant marine, and flood relief than he wanted to spend. The President put Hoover, his Secretary of Commerce, in charge of the latter. It was a sensible choice, given Hoover's remarkable record with wartime refugees, but Coolidge was wary of this subordinate he called a "superman," and fearful of what Shlaes now rues; namely, "that Hoover, the activist, would subvert the Coolidge legacy."
Shlaes finds no coyness in his famous demurral—"I do not choose to run for President in 1928"—only an awareness that, "if he believed in the mechanisms he and Mellon had established, he had to let them run for themselves, and not hover over them." Coolidge saw the bad times coming, but refused the stockbroker Charles Merrill's offer of a job, at a hundred thousand dollars a year. Merrill hoped the new ex-President would "warn against speculation . . . speak out so that investors made themselves less vulnerable to a coming crash." Instead, Coolidge returned to Northampton, wrote a newspaper column, and served on the board of the New York Life Insurance Company. He was sixty when he died of a heart attack, early in 1933, between Hoover's defeat and Franklin Roosevelt's Inauguration.
Coolidge's psychology has driven several biographers to fits of frustrated supposition. Not long after the President left office, Gamaliel Bradford, in an essay called "The Genius of the Average," saw in Coolidge "a persistent, insistent, certainly not buoyant, but aggressive and almost tediously reiterated optimism, which seems partly physical in its nature, and which always suggests a more or less conventional and traditional habit and attitude of mind." Ten years ago, in "The Tormented President," Robert E. Gilbert, a political-science professor at Northeastern University, made a grim, one-sided case for Coolidge's having been, during the four years after his son's death, "a disabled chief executive" whose long naps must be seen not as endearingly Reaganesque but as a depressive manifestation of hypersomnia.
This is a President who has always led biographers toward stylistic, not just psychoanalytic, defeat. William Allen White's Coolidge is a more ambiguous, less savory figure than Shlaes's, an "inwardly proud and sentimental little New Englander," an "insatiable consumer of gossip" whose distance from the Harding scandals seems to have been achieved through a certain willed obliviousness. But, in his own sometimes smug attempts to illuminate Coolidge, White bounces off any number of rhetorical walls, using exclamation points and a hectoring imperative—he sometimes sounds like Tom Wolfe's grandfather—to force himself toward revelation. His most penetrating moment may arrive when he throws up his hands and holds a long note of bafflement:
Was it some accidental combination of a thousand circumstances which always kept Coolidge and his works slightly out of focus, always drab and cheerless, or was it some touch of his own aura, some curious emanation from his own slight public personality, which slowly uncorked whatever vessel he used for his political purposes and let the flare and fizz and culminating zip dribble out in a luke warm serenity?
Shlaes wisely avoids trying to invade every recess of Coolidge's mentality, but she has no particular gift for the simpler business of biography. She tends to leave out information crucial to an understanding of whatever matter she's just taken up; her paragraphs don't so much segue as skip onto and off the page, like the fast-playing, quickly changed records on a nineteen-twenties Victrola. Still, her enthusiasm for cranking the machine never flags. When she says that "the new tax schedule Mellon's men drew up was a beauty to behold," those are her wide-eyed words, not some bit of indirect discourse meant to echo Coolidge.
The President's own attempt at writing the story of his life is beloved by some for its brevity; it runs to just two hundred and forty-seven pages of generously sized type. An almost anecdote-free production, the autobiography was dismissed by Bradford as "unrevealing," a once-over-lightly job "written at the instance of the popular magazines." Anyone getting hold of it (the volume remains in print, from Honolulu's University Press of the Pacific) has to tap the maple pretty hard to get any sap. But the tree isn't entirely empty. Coolidge's repeated use of the word "clean" to describe life in Plymouth Notch may interest those inclined, like Professor Gilbert, to the psycho-historical, while others will be struck by the frequency with which this Yankee Republican sounds like Tammany Hall's George Washington Plunkitt, who famously remarked, "I seen my opportunities and I took 'em." Between Harding's death and funeral, there occurs this one-sentence paragraph: "I issued the usual proclamation." In a 1998 biography, Robert Sobel reports a statistician's discovery that "Coolidge's sentences averaged 18 words, compared to Lincoln's 26.6, Wilson's 31.8, and Theodore Roosevelt's 41."
For the next decade or so, it may be Amity Shlaes who has custody of Coolidge's reputation, and, for all her admiration of the man, she seems happy having him belong to this moment rather than to the ages. From its praise of "a predictable tax policy" to its blurb from Paul Ryan, "Coolidge" seeks to demonstrate the thirtieth President's current economic and political relevance. Even Shlaes's portrait of Coolidge as a unifier who remained friends with his opponents and preferred a big, ethnically expanded Republican tent ("we care not at what shrine you worship or how you eat your pie") seems offered as instruction to today's crabby-sounding G.O.P. Along these lines, she might mention how Coolidge, in that post-Presidential autobiography, felt able to say, "The more I had seen of the workings of the Federal government the more respect I came to have for it."
Even if she did, Shlaes would not end up making a reader feel Coolidge's applicability to the present day. True, one prefers his terse sententiousness to the purple gases of rhetoric that puff out of modern White House chimneys; and he does make one wistful for the days when a President could be buried after a twenty-two-minute service. But if it really all does come down to money—as it seemed to in his time and does once more in ours—what good can all Coolidge's cheese-paring (his term) and anybody's "scientific taxation" do us now? The budget wars in Shlaes's book, even the ones over veterans' benefits, feel like fantastically small-scale skirmishes in comparison with those currently being fought. In Coolidge's time, the nation had not yet piled high its commitments to the sick and to the poor and, especially, to the old, whom we will have with us—who will be us—for longer and longer stretches. Coolidge was indeed able to "swing it," but in a world that we have since—gradually, deliberately, and with a fundamental bipartisanship—exchanged for another. If he did come back to us in a dream, and looked up at the fiscal cliff over which we teeter in mutual bad faith, he would likely offer no more than an uncomprehending shake of the head and a disbelieving question: "You built that?" ♦


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