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  • What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope

    What I Learned When My Students Began Jumping Rope1

    By now the outcry has been heard and confirmed: Children need recess or other forms of physical activity to thrive in school. But I could have told you that. As a veteran teacher, I stumbled on this fact in my own classroom quite by accident. Years ago my students took the required, but now defunct,

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  • What I Learned From My Grandfather About Money

    What I Learned From My Grandfather About Money4

    When I was a child, my mother and I would take the Long Island Railroad to Brooklyn to see relatives a few times a year. My grandfather was always outside in front of the apartment house in Park Slope, where he and my aunts and uncles lived. Upon seeing him, I would run down the

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  • What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny

    What Homer Can Teach Us About Leadership and Tyranny0

    What makes a good leader? This question confronts us at every election and with every domestic and international policy decision. As a professor of classical languages and literature for more than 30 years, I marvel at our insistence on addressing this question as if it were brand new. Centuries ago, myths helped the Greeks learn

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  • What Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor Taught About Forgiveness

    What Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor Taught About Forgiveness1

    Eva Kor passed on July 4, 2019. Having survived the Nazis, Kor then worked to liberate the human heart. She founded the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. Kor was born in Romania in 1934. In 1944, the Nazis transported her and her family to Auschwitz. Immediately upon disembarking, her father

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  • What Hollywood’s Golden Age Offers Today’s Cultural Meltdown

    What Hollywood’s Golden Age Offers Today’s Cultural Meltdown0

    There is no human nature because there is no God to have a conception of it … man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ~ John Paul Sartre We are in a fierce life and death cultural struggle over the meaning of human nature and reality in the cosmos. Our postmodern culture

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  • What Hollywood is Really Worried About with the Kevin Spacey Allegations

    What Hollywood is Really Worried About with the Kevin Spacey Allegations0

    • November 2, 2017

    According to Hollywood logic, if you sexually harass underage boys, for Heaven’s sake don’t also say that you’re gay. In recent days, the floodgates have opened, and the cesspool of sexual harassment inside Hollywood is being revealed for all to see. Hollywood… you know: the people who like to give the rest of us sanctimonious

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