THE shake of the head and shrugging of shoulders are almost apologetic; a mixture of wearied exasperation and awareness that a familiar drum beat is about to sound. From rule-makers to rule-breakers, Kieran McGeeney’s musings about the nitty-gritty of GAA officialdom and occasionally inexplicable decisions are generally measured and considered, yet you needn’t always scratch too hard at the surface for his truth to out. The definition of the tackle, or lack thereof, has long been a stone in his shoe. What constitutes hard but fair and what is a foul? With that in mind McGeeney, not one for donning sepia-tinted specs, might find it hard to suppress a smile - possibly even a swelling of the chest - as Sherman Hall recounts his first-ever experience of Gaelic football. “I had come over from the States in 1989. So this was maybe 1990 or thereabouts, and Forkhill were playing Mullaghbawn in Forkhill. It might have been a friendly game, I don’t remember, but I was … [Read more...] about ‘My ambition was to go all the way. I wanted to be on TV, I wanted to play. I wanted to be in the limelight’
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Slavery history: Schools do terrible job on slavery, racism, Civil War
Arika Herron Indianapolis Star Published 7:00 AM EDT Mar 17, 2019 INDIANAPOLIS — Twenty-three little bodies – all clad in navy uniforms – are wriggling in their seats at Avondale Meadows Academy. There are superhero cutouts dangling from the ceiling, a “Wakanda Forever” poster on the wall, and Snickers, the class guinea pig, just had a slice of apple. It’s a typical Wednesday morning at the Indianapolis charter school, and Shorron Scott is asking her class about their feelings. Sad. Bad. Mad. Angry. Afraid. “Of whom?” Scott asks one of her students. “Of the slave master,” he says. Avondale Meadows' third grade is learning about slavery in the United States, and it’s not always easy. Across the hall, in Katie Millikan’s class, her two dozen students are looking at pictures of a slave collar and the scarred back of a slave. Nine-year-old London Moore said sometimes her classmates cry. When that happens, … [Read more...] about Slavery history: Schools do terrible job on slavery, racism, Civil War
The next Koch doesn’t like politics
Last May, Chase Koch, the 41-year-old son of billionaire businessman Charles Koch, gathered about two dozen wealthy young professionals for a weekend retreat in Vail. This was no regular Koch get-together, the kind of uber-elite gathering of big ideas and bigger checkbooks that Charles and his brother David have made a feature of their political activity for the better part of a generation. It was six months before the most consequential midterm elections since the mid-1990s. President Donald Trump was threatening massive tariffs on steel and aluminum. House Speaker Paul Ryan had just announced he would retire from Congress. But the group assembled in Colorado’s swankiest resort wasn’t there to talk about how to block the impending blue wave, or to listen to seminars promoting free trade, or debate the future of Republicans in the House of Representatives. In fact, politics barely came up. And yet this meeting — which received no media attention at the time — … [Read more...] about The next Koch doesn’t like politics