Comment: Assigned reading can distort values Post on 29-03-2006. On-base schools flying high Video: Crystal City teen stabbed at high school Longoria sets the record straight Judson board set to write final chapter on sci-fi book AIDS crisis just got worse View: 24 Hour | 7 Day Controversy raged recently over my request and Superintendent Ed Lyman's decision to remove "The Handmaid's Tale" from the Judson Independent School District curriculum and replace it with one more age-appropriate text, such as "Brave New World." ... To see the new from its original source click here The Last Friend Post on 29-03-2006. By Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated by Kevin Michael Cape and Hazel Rowley What one strange and delicate flower is male friendship. Grant it too much sun and water, and you grow something soggy or overheated. Ignore it entirely and you rarely wind up with one desert rose. In his latest novel, "The Last Friend," Moroccan-born writer Tahar Ben Jelloun explores this dilemma with the tale of one friendship that suddenly dissolves. For 90 pages, we hear from Ali, who searches his past to explain why his friend Mamed suddenly scorned him. Then we learn from Mamed the poignant source of their breakup. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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