Washington â Years ago, I had a great coach in high school who was given to Solomonic apothegms. One of his favorites was, âForget your grandparents.â By that, he meant forget the arguments that issued from your grandparentsâ grudges with other grandparents. The high school he coached at was highly diverse, sufficiently diverse to have frequent warfare among the differing ethnic groups. My coach, Tony Lawless, thought we should forget our ethnic or racial conflicts â simply forget them and move on.
The high school that Mr. Lawless coached at and that I attended was a high-diversity high school. We had Italians, Irish, Polish, Latinos (though they were not called Latinos then, probably Mexicans or Puerto Ricans) and even a few Blacks. It was the early 1960s, and diversity was not a sacred, unassailable value. I remember one Saturday at a football game, the Italian students who were sitting together in the stands began chanting, âBenito, Benito, Benito Mu
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Years ago I had a great coach in high school who was given to Solomonic apothegms. One of his favorites was: “Forget your grandparents.”
By that he meant forget the arguments that issued from your grandparents’ grudges with other grandparents. The high school he coached at was highly diverse, sufficiently diverse to have frequent warfare among the differing ethnic groups. My coach, Tony Lawless, thought we should forget our ethnic or racial conflicts, simply forget them and move on.
Mount Etna erupts against the night sky
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Mount Etna erupts
Mount Etna, a volcano in Sicily, Italy, erupted on Sunday. (Videos: APTN, INGV/BORIS BEHNCKE and @MARTAPALAZZO via Storyful)
CATANIA, Italy - One of the world s most active volcanoes roared to life on Sunday.
Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily, erupted into a beautiful orange glow in the dark overnight hours. The volcano sent out lava fountains onto its south slope and plumes of ash into the sky.
Boris Behncke, a volcanologist at Italy s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, shared a video showing lava flowing from on.