Musing

War and Peace is funny! Really! Never, never marry, my dear fellow; that's my advice to you; don't marry till you have faced the fact that you have done all you're capable of doing, and till you cease to love the woman you have chosen, till you see her plain, or else you will make a cruel mistake that can never be set right. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Or else everything good and lofty in you will be done for. It will all be frittered away over trifles. Yes, yes, yes! Don't look at me with such surprise. If you expect anything of yourself in the future you will feel at every step that for you all is over, all is closed up except the drawing-room, where you will stand on the same level with the court lackey and the idiot...And why! Why, the whole story of life lies in it. You talk of Bonaparte and his career, [...], you talk of Bonaparte, but Bonaparte when he was working his way up, going step by step straight to his aim, he was free;...

The Ho Times Attempting to make people laugh and/or inform them since June 2002 Student unravels mystery of stupid teachers NOTRE DAME, IN - Many students of New Prairie High School in New Carlisle, IN have wondered why so many of their teachers appear to be substandard, or lacking in what they call "knowledge." And of course, it's taken a student to answer a stumping question once again. "They just jump through hoops," said 2002 graduate of NPHS Joshua Holewczynski. "The very first exam that the teachers have to pass is a complete joke. I bet monkeys who've surgically had 90% of their brains removed could pass that stupid thing." Mr. Holewczynski is referring to the Praxis I exam, which is very similar in format to the SATs except that it costs much, much, much more. The test covers all three of the same areas that the SATs do, just to a lesser degree. "There was one algebra-based question. That's as difficult as it g...