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Jan 24, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
In 2008, Jeff Hiller got his first taste of fame – a starring role in a series of Snickers commercials that played during the NFL playoff games. He was the most popular parishioner at his church when he came home for Christmas that year. Almost two decades later, he is back in the spotlight after his final season playing the sincere, small-town gay character Joel on “Somebody Somewhere,” a Peabody Award-winning TV series on Max.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
everand.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
In 2008, Jeff Hiller got his first taste of fame – a starring role in a series of Snickers commercials that played during the NFL playoff games. He was the most popular parishioner at his church when he came home for Christmas that year. Former bullies, church ladies, and fellow theater kids crowded him in the fellowship room at coffee hour.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) is set to release updated guidelines for Illustrative Mathematics, its controversial new math curriculum, following widespread confusion during the initial rollout. Some teachers and principals have reported that the curriculum was enforced rigidly, with educators reporting threats of disciplinary action for veering off prescribed routines.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
It took moving out for me to finally get to know my neighbors. I was selling my belongings before heading back home to New York. Sitting on a roofed porch with a tea and a fan, I waited for customers. Maybe I’d glean some last bits of wisdom from a spot I’d soon put in the rear view. Why We Wrote ThisHow can we create a kinder world? Start on your front porch, as our writer does. Meet your neighbors, and learn their stories. Community breeds compassion.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
everand.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
It took moving out for me to finally get to know my neighbors. It was the beginning of a long hot summer in the Mississippi Delta, and I was selling my belongings before heading back home to New York. Much of my furniture was already lined up on the porch. I waited outside in a folding chair with a cash box in my lap and my phone opened to Facebook Marketplace. Earlier that day, I had found a home for my toaster and microwave.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
Fernando Green sits on a pile of plywood in a new barn on a humid Mississippi Delta afternoon. The barn will be a center for students like his daughter to get a feel for local jobs in agriculture. There’s school swag for the incoming middle schoolers. A petting zoo with a baby alligator is off in one corner while boys throw a pigskin around in the back. A Mississippi Delta native, Mr. Green hardly breaks a sweat in the nearly 100-degree Fahrenheit heat.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
everand.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
Fernando Green sits on a pile of plywood in a new barn on a humid Mississippi Delta afternoon. The barn will be a center for students like his daughter to get a feel for local jobs in agriculture. There’s school swag for the incoming middle schoolers. A petting zoo with a baby alligator is off in one corner while boys throw a pigskin around in the back. A Mississippi Delta native, Mr. Green hardly breaks a sweat in the nearly 100-degree Fahrenheit heat.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
The 2024 U.S. hurricane season, now underway, is predicted to be among the worst in decades. Before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made that forecast, a debate had been swirling about whether new vocabulary is needed to reflect the growing intensity of storms. Category 5, signifying sustained winds stronger than 156 mph, is the highest marker on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
everand.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
The 2024 U.S. hurricane season, now underway, is predicted to be among the worst in decades. Before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made that forecast, a debate had been swirling about whether new vocabulary is needed to reflect the growing intensity of storms. Category 5, signifying sustained winds stronger than 156 mph, is the highest marker on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Leonardo Bevilacqua
Salomé slides her svelte figure through a cracked-open double door near the front of the dark sanctuary. Click clack. It’s the first moment of the vigil of Easter at Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in Manhattan’s East Village. Worshippers at this historic Catholic church can only hear her stiletto heels, faint and staccato, as she walks to its organ. She steps carefully up the old stone steps to the console, flicking on a reading light that illuminates her sharp features.
