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From the BBC re: the latest military action in Iraq:
The operation came at a time when support at home for
President Bush and his campaign in Iraq is running very low, and when
the international media were preparing to focus on the third
anniversary of the war, just three days later.

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Here’s BAWP’s online ‘zine of writing by teacher consultants. First suggested in July of 2002, it finally launched three days ago. Embryonic for about four years.
Sigh.
The
BAWP community of teacher consultants is a smart group, exceptional
teachers, with a level of classroom practice that makes the
union-busting National Board Certified types look clueless in
comparison. And it STILL took [...]

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Seems only right that someone sends me this song link just as the Gay
Straight Alliance finally gets off the ground at Galileo. I chuckled
through most of it, but the sadness of that squeeze box and the lyric
“You can’t fuck with the lady that sleeps in each cowboy’s head???”makes it way more than a ‘Brokeback’ parody. [...]

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[Revised after the plane ride and return to reliable connectivity. Original here.]

A week ago, I wrote a quick response to a NWP
listserv (yes, listserv -ugh) thread about blogging vs. websites. I
meant it as inflammatory. Unfortunately, its content did not inflame
the discussion I was aiming at. A casual reference to being a happily
fault-accepting ex-Catholic did, however, [...]

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November 1 - the Day of All Saints, Jim Gray, founder of the Bay Area Writing Project and (eventually) the National Writing Project, died.

Saint or bodhisattva, he certainly stumbled into wisdom (Is there any
other way into wisdom?)  and was blessed enough to see where he’d
landed.
Teachers teaching teachers.
If you’re gonna’ teach
writing, it might [...]

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Friend Robert Deng is helping to organize this November 5-6 event.

Now how could I arrange to attend?
more…

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I’m in Hong Kong doing a Writing Project institute behind a campus firewall. No AIM or MS Messenger available. But it appears that blogChat works. So if the diamond below is green, click the link to its left and say hello:
Chat #1 

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PDFs available on request for digitally motivated educators in the PRC:

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From the NYT today:

A member of the California Army National Guard
filed suit in federal court here Tuesday challenging the Bush
administration’s so-called stop-loss policy, asserting that his pending
deployment to Iraq “bears no relation to the threat of terrorism
against the United States.”

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School’s
out and it’s hot. Too hot, hot, hot. Hotter than a rainless July in
Jersey. So forget trying to make the image background transparent.
Kudos to King Chen, btw, recent Gal graduate and budding illustrator
for edBlogger’s and the beastie’s artistic confrontation.
BAWP in China did hand off the “blog pearl.” 
Granted, an unusual classroom situation, with only 12 students [...]

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