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By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

The beginning of March brings many things, among them fateful cinch notices, the annual open house, and the inevitable busy work of pre-registration. Juniors, sophomores, and freshman file into the designated facility, chatting with one another as they casually pick up transcripts, course catalogs, ROP catalogs, and multicolored registration forms. Gradually, the hubbub is silenced and the slideshow begins.

Blah, blah, blah…I don’t think I’m the only one who tunes out. It’s nothing against the counselors who have put in so much hard effort into education us all, just that I know this already. Or, at least, I feel as if I do. I need this many credits, this many community service hours, and I need to plan. Got it, I nod absentmindedly. Then, my fingers become restless, flipping through the multitude of papers on my lap until I arrive at a page in the course catalog titled: Graduation Requirements Summary.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Reducing the number of access points at James Logan High School and using video technology to enhance security on the campus – two areas that the New Haven Unified School District had previously identified and started to address – are among the recommendations brought to the District in a professional security assessment conducted at the high school.

While continuing to work on those initiatives, the District also will adopt GE Security Consultants’ recommendation to require students to display identification badges on campus. Staff members already are required to wear identification badges.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2008 by Reed Elsevier, USA)March 10th Weekly Bestsellers list

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Appeal. John Grisham. Doubleday, $27.95
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 5
2. Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella. Dial, $25
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. 7th Heaven. James Patterson & Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
4. Strangers in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
5. The Outlaw Demon Wails. Kim Harrison. Eos, $24.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
6. Honor Thyself. Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $27
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
7. Lady Killer. Lisa Scottoline. Harper, $25.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
8. Duma Key. Stephen King. Scribner, $28
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 6
9. Betrayal. John Lescroart. Dutton, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead, $25.95
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 41

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

“In this land subjected to what they claim to be divine law, the law of discernment, justice, and compassion, men and women sneak around as if under a death sentence. When someone puts his hand in his pocket, under his coat or his gandoura, people hold their breath, hearts begin to pound wildly, legs tense up ready to start running madly. It is not uncommon for a gun or a dagger to flash forth—a feline leap, a leap of lightning. The result is a man, covered with knife cuts or riddled with bullets, who puts up a struggle in a pool of blood like an animal in a ritual sacrifice. There is no helping hand, no reaction of indignation. The passerby, overcome with panic, scatter and flee in every direction as if in a poultry yard over which a falcon hovers. The citizens have internalized terror, they have become mere beasts concerned with their own survival.”

The above paragraph is basically a summary of the book, and is certainly quite a bit easier to read and comprehend. There is absolutely no reason that comes to mind to read The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout besides a few select paragraphs, which essentially summarize the whole novel, just like the one above. While I wholeheartedly approve of the messages the book conveys, and the cold hard reality of it is a nice change from the fluff of much of today’s fiction, I just could not get even a single drop of enjoyment out of it.

From wikipedia:

Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (March 12, 1889 – April 8, 1950) was a Polish ballet dancer and choreographer. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he became celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could perform en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time (Albright, 2004) and his ability to perform seemingly gravity-defying leaps was also legendary.

Vaslav Nijinsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Russified Polish dancer's family of Eleonora Bereda and Tomasz Niżyński. Nijinsky was christened in Warsaw. In 1900 he joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he studied under Enrico Cecchetti, Nicholas Legat, and Pavel Gerdt. At 18 years old he had leading roles in the Mariinsky Theatre.

Watch Charles Jude perform the lead role in Nijinsky's ballet, Afternoon of a Faun, free from the Internet Archive.