Nine months Landsman’s been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker. “He didn’t answer the phone, he wouldn...
Mom and dad would just smile and nod when the grades came home and would happily write another check for the college when the tuition bill came due. Well, the bill is really coming due now. The first evidence of it came during the pandemic when students had to learn remotely while ...
States were encouraging to take on new standards and practices to improve the preparedness of high school graduates for college or a career; better track the growth of students; and increase turnaround for declining students. The legislation also introduced tax cuts and invested hundreds of billions...
report that suggested that the inmate might have been murdered, based on “extremity bruising and neck trauma” suggesting “a choke hold at the time he died.” The pathologist later changed his mind and attributed the death to liver failure. A grand jury did not indict anyone. But a ...
’s only congressional representative. The investigation shows that she had been sexually abused and it appears that the fall was not an accident. It soon becomes clear that the murdered woman was a high-end prostitute working for an exclusive escort service name Discretion. This agency caters ...
Brazil has always been a fascinating area for students of cannibalism. One of the most famous tribes was theTupinamba,who captured a German soldier and explorer named Hans Staden in the sixteenth century. He claimed to have witnessed their cannibalistic rituals and did very nicely from his subsequ...
the really great, sweet teacher who I write about in the book who basically covered for me when I was supposed to be in her classroom as a teacher's aide helping with the kindergarten students when she knew that I was actually not going to be there. I was going to be at my third ...
Oftentimes, I make students do a five-block radius of where they live and pretend I'm from outer space, and I don't know what Astoria is or I don't know, and so you need to show me what makes that part of your world interesting. Guy Kawasaki: Great. Karen Mullarkey: Who are ...
Who would have imagined the wide, beautiful expanse of Luxembourg Garden was the roaming ground of a social killer who murdered women for their money? And there’s the uninviting building in the Cour du Commerce where the guillotine was born. The catacombs underlay large areas Paris with ...
I always re-read my favorites—The Great Gatsby,The Master and Margarita,East of Eden, andThe Remains of the Day, to name a few. I’m appalled by readers and book bloggers who think re-reading is a waste of time because there is “so many books but so little time.” Let’s face...