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Neil Gaiman: Hanukkah with bells on - Features - Books - The Independent
Neil Gaiman: Hanukkah with bells on - Features - Books - The Independent:
I do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy, as hard as I lobbied, with my sisters, for a Christmas tree.
My parents objected. "We're Jewish," they said. "We don't do Christmas. We do Hanukkah instead." . . .
I do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy, as hard as I lobbied, with my sisters, for a Christmas tree.
My parents objected. "We're Jewish," they said. "We don't do Christmas. We do Hanukkah instead." . . .
Saturday
Bob Dylan’s 1974 Classic “Forever Young,” Illustrated | Brain Pickings
Bob Dylan’s 1974 Classic “Forever Young,” Illustrated | Brain Pickings:
"Forever Young is at once refreshingly unexpected and somehow completely natural — the lyrics, after all, are the perfect life-advice to youngsters:"
"Forever Young is at once refreshingly unexpected and somehow completely natural — the lyrics, after all, are the perfect life-advice to youngsters:"
Friday
Ask A Native New Yorker: Should I Work For A Charter School?: Gothamist
Ask A Native New Yorker: Should I Work For A Charter School?: Gothamist:
"Some readers are probably wondering what's so wrong about charter schools. The short answer is that these schools sap resources and disengage families from the public system (particularly in our poorest districts, where they are most concentrated), and represent a slimy, secret campaign by private equity types to privatize education in America. On average they don't perform any better than public schools, and many perform worse."
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"Some readers are probably wondering what's so wrong about charter schools. The short answer is that these schools sap resources and disengage families from the public system (particularly in our poorest districts, where they are most concentrated), and represent a slimy, secret campaign by private equity types to privatize education in America. On average they don't perform any better than public schools, and many perform worse."
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Saturday
Queens-born writer Joseph Tirella revisits 1964 World's Fair in soon-to-be released book "Tomorrow-Land" - NY Daily News
| 1964 New York World's Fair (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
"“So many radical things were happening, but it gets kind of lost in between the Camelot years and the psychedelic years,” he said."
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