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Student Involvement, Flexibility and Individualization.
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Innovative curricular reforms in language instruction at an inner-city experimental high school are described in this article. The primary concern for flexibility in enrollment procedures, language offerings, planning of learning opportunities, and, in general, the total curriculum, is prompted by the recognition of individual differences and needs among students. Changes made in language laboratory design and use, development of skills courses, and use of learning packets are described in this article. Community and student attitudes toward language instruction in public schools, derived from a Louis Harris poll, are commented on and underscore the need for relevant educational program development. (RL)
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My husband's sister has cancer. The news came as a big shock to everyone. It's stage four, it's in her bones and her lung and she has a hard fight ahead of her.
So now that I've gotten the hard news over with, the message to follow, I hope, will inspire you and bring a smile to your face.
She lives in a very small community, Taylorsville, California, nestled high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She's worked hard all her 54 years. She's the local mail carrier, she's raised a small herd of cattle, she's been a waitress for 39 years, she lives in a modest mobile home and is married to a Native American man who is a horse whisperer, for real. She's lived an ordinary life but Georgette is anything but ordinary. She found that out last night.
When her townspeople heard of her illness and upcoming treatment, everyone whose life she had touched in some small way came out to celebrate her life and raise money for her to live on while receiving treatment. 500 people showed up at the Grange Hall. Three bands donated their music, woodcrafters donated furniture for a live auction, other live and silent auction items were sold, beverages were donated and sold, food was donated, there was a $25 per person cover at the door.
They raised in excess of $20,000 in the span of an evening. She called this morning. She's still in shock. She can't believe that many people showed up and that much money was raised.
I said, "Georgie, that's what you've been cultivating your whole life, this kind of love." She told me she didn't even realize she had been touching lives like this. She's just being herself. I said "That's when you know it's real. When you don't even know you're doing it."
So now she's motivated to fight the good fight. She says she can't let these good people down. When all is said and done, there's going to be another party. This time the fun's all on her nickle.
Oh my gosh....I have tears in my eyes after reading this. All I have to say is she has to be someone very special. This is truly remarkable and she is a true testament of God's love.
I will keep her in my prayers......
She is deserving of a miracle.....the life she has led is testament to that. May she find comfort in all her friends who have so strongly rallied around her.
My prayer is for God to heal her body and to restore health her if it is His will. In the mean time please know that my prayers go out the your entire family. She sounds like an amazing woman who is living a magical life. I will lift her in constant prayer.
That's just so awesome. Whatever you call it. Blessings abound to Georgie. She is in my prayers.
What a remarkable woman. I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers.
Thank you all so much. And, yes, if anyone is deserving of a miracle, it's her. I've watched her take care of elderly neighbors, bring food to people she knows are shut ins, lend her ear when someone needs to talk and her shoulder when someone needs to cry. I don't think I've ever known anyone so selfless in my life. This morning I looked up to heaven and prayed that God would give a miracle on this one. I know that whatever happens is His will but this outpouring of love from so many people - it's just amazing.
Thank you all for your comments and your prayers.
Well my tears finally stopped, so i can type.
This is so very awesome and I hope she fights hard. What a show of love for what sounds like an amazing woman!!
TY for sharing this with us.
Remember to tell her, there is always HOPE!
Who said that there are not Angels among us? She is truly one. My thoughts & Prayers are w/ her & her family & community as she fights this battle.
Someone once told me that when you drop a pebble into a pond, you may not see the ripples it causes, but they are still there. She is that pebble! The world needs more like her.
You know because of the person she obviously is and has been all of her life...I feel very confident she will continue to bless others even through the cancer. Oh I don't believe one minute that God said oh I'm going to give Georgie cancer but he will use her even through something as terrible as cancer. I have a strong feeling she is just beginning.....in what she will do to touch others. Amazing.....
What an amazing story! I wish her all the best in her fight, as well as you and your husband, Cynthia.
What a wonderful example of getting back what you give..... My thoughts and prayers are with your sister in law and family.
What an inspiration. Thank you Cynthia. Love can move mountains and my prayer to Georgie, her family, your husband, you and all those surround Georgie.
What a wonderful world this would be if everyone were like her.
This is an amazing story about an amazing woman with an amazing family.
Many prayers & positive thoughts,
Truly amazing!
Its incredible to see how a community can unite and bring hope and positivity to someone's life. The support of people around her will pull her through this difficult time.
Cynthia I had goosebumps reading about your dear sister in law. I pray that she will conquer this terrible disease so that she can continue to enrich the lives of others.
Many heartfelt wishes and prayers for Georgette.
Cynthia, I read this in tears - she is a really outstanding woman and people now this ..
As I know it's how strong in your mind that lets you fight - the more positive you are the stronger you'll be - its sounds like she oozes positive vibes.
Keep us posted on her treatment
She is truly amazing, and I will keep her and the entire family in my prayers. God Bless!
What a beautiful story..
thanks for sharing, Cynthia..
we really never know just how many lives we actually touch, do we?
A remarkable woman! She has touched many, and because of you, she is now touching many more! Thanks for sharing her with us!
This community act probably gave your sister in law the positive thoughts she needed to fight this illness. Staying positive when fighting cancer is half the battle—and has been proven to help in the healing.
That is so sweet, I cried all through the blog.
If anything can fight cancer it's the support, love and positive energy that others bring.
Georgie, we are all rooting for you.
Wow i just read this and love does conquer all, It was just confirm again....thanks! My prayers are with you and your family.
This was wonderful. Thank you for sharing. She will definitely be in my prayers.
How is she doing BTW?
Beautiful. I am a firm believer that if you do good and put out possitive thinking the Universe will reward you. She has been good and kind and this is her reward to have her community rally around her for support. God Bless and helps her with her health and treatment.
Thank you for sharing this story of your sister in law. She sounds like an amazing person who has touched many people by being a genuine, loving and compassionate being.
May her life continue to be blessed and may she always have the knowledge that by giving so much love to so many she indeed receives so much more in return.
All is well.
I want to say I have missed you!! I am praying for you and your family. Sending smiles your way!!!
What a sad but beautiful story about a courageous women and a wonderful husband. Cancer is such a scary thing. Love conquers all for sure. Thank you so much Cynthia for sharing this inspirational story with us. May God bless you all, Faye
Thank you so much for sharing! May God in his infinite mercy bless Georgie, and keep her. Strengthen her, and heal her! Surround her with his love, and comfort her as he carries her through this.
The God that lives inside of Her is AWESOME! All things are possible when we let go and just let Him be to Bless us as He sees fit. Right now there are tears of uncertainty but before long there will be throngs of smiles and great songs of priase. "When God brings you to it, He will see you through it." I have Faith that Blessings will flow and her healing through Gods Love will come from heaven above. She is in my prayers may she continue to Be Blessed. Like the words in one of my favorite songs" Jesus is on the main line, tell Him what you want! Jesus is on the main line, tell Him what you want. Jesus is on the main line, tell Him what you want, You better call Him up and tell Him, what you want". " Ask and you shall receive". We just need a little faith and all things are possible, "the faith of a mustard seed."
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To start with,I went on a date today…And then I started thinking what do we call a 'date' ? In the oxford dictionary its definition is : 'a social or romantic appointment or engagement'. I did not kiss him and he did not kiss me…Seemed to weird even though the conversation went well.So why is it a date? Should not we call this a social appointment (which according to Oxford people is still a DATE) or a friendly meeting?
The place of the 'appointment' : A cozy coffee-shop with a cup of cappuccino and an arty crowd around.
The time of the 'appointment' : 2 hours
The main topic of the 'appointment' : 'Let's impress her'
The looks (don't say it's not important) : A good style and a red nose..It was cold though!
The impression : He is too talented and too good for me
Soo do I like him? I do and I don't
Will there be a second date? Already arranged
The question of TODAY is : What do we call a date or what do we call a successful date?


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Kristen Stewart is dating personal assistant and close pal Alicia Cargile after all, the Hollywood actress' mum has confirmed. And she couldn't be happier.
After splitting from her Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson two years ago following THOSE Rupert Sanders kissing pictures, Kristen has now found love with Alicia, who she was romantically linked with back in January.
Now Kristen's mum Jules Stewart, 55, has confirmed the pair are dating as she tells how happy she is her daughter has found love.
'What's not to be accepting about her now having a girlfriend? She's happy. I've met Kristen's new girlfriend, I like her. What's not to accept? She's a lovely girl,' she told the Sunday Mirror.
She then explained how she feels people must be 'free to love whoever they want', adding: 'I accept my daughter loves women and men. We all choose our friends so we should be free to choose our lovers.'
EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Kristen Stewart has moved on from her ex, Robert Pattinson, and possibly from men in general as she is seen enjoying a romantic getaway with her gal pal, Alicia Cargile. The pair have been seen hanging out frequently together and it appears that the two are an item as they walked around the beach hand-in-hand. The pair wore matching sweat shorts and while Kristen had a drink in hand, her beau smoked what looks like a cigarette.
And speaking of her sadness at her daughter's romance with R-Pattz not working out, she added: 'They were a great couple. I'm very sad that Kristen and Robert didn't have a chance to be alone together, they had to have the whole world with them and all the public stuff ruined everything, life became overwhelming.'
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart dated after starring alongside each other as Edward Cullen and Bella Swan in the Twilight saga
While she's now happily dating Alicia, Robert, 29, is said to be engaged to singer FKA Twigs, 27.
'She's not unhappy at all. She's thrilled to death that she's working, she's still friends with her ex-boyfriend and she's moving forward,' Jules added.


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While some other handsets have been moving to Bluetooth audio for their audio needs, LG seems to be going all-in on wired audio. For one, the various leaks of the G6 indicate that LG will be keeping the headphone jack around for at least one more year, much to the delight of wired earbud fans everywhere.
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LG has announced that it will be showing off the G6 for the first time at noon (3:00 am PST) on Feb. 26 at the Saint Jordi Club in Barcelona. Despite the announcement, however, VentureBeat reports the phones won't hit U.S. shelves until April 7, which will likely bump up against the anticipated release of the Galaxy S8, which is due to be unveiled in late March. Pricing is likely to be in the range of the $650 G5, though there are conflicting reports on exactly how much it might cost. A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests the price could dip into the $500-$600 range, while another rumor suggests the G6 could have slightly varying prices depending on the market.
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- Updated: February 23, 2017
RYAN SIDEBOTTOM is determined to sign off a glittering 20-year career on a perfect high by lifting more silverware with his beloved Yorkshire.
In a career that spanned twenty years, the 39-year old played for Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, as well as the national side. He also won five County Championship titles, three with his native Yorkshire and two with Nottinghamshire.
"There's a tear in my eye whenever I think about not playing professional cricket again, a game that's given me so much over the years. But it's the right time and I want to go out on a high, rather than fade away, as that's just not the sort of guy I am," Sidebottom was quoted in a report by BBC.
Born in Huddersfield, the left-arm seamer made his first class debut for Yorkshire way back in 1997, played a total of 222 games, picking 737 wickets at an average of 23.90.
He received his first England cap in 2001, joining the side against the touring Pakistan team, and made his ODI debut in October in the same year.
"I've always tried to play with a smile on my face and give 110% because I absolutely love this sport," he continued.
"It's been an honour to represent my home county, Yorkshire, play for my country and help make history at Nottinghamshire.
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Description for Curtain creeper, Vernonia creeper, Parda bel
The slender stems climb up and then fall down beautifully over a wall or railing. The tender stems, all hanging down, form a curtain, hence the name Curtain creeper. Basically, it is a foliage plant, grown primarily for its habit of forming a green curtain. The species name elaeagnifolia means, having foliage resembling Elaeagnus, pure olive. Dirty white flowers appear in bunches.
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Ornamental use: The plant is used for an ornamental purpose.
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As I go through the screencast to demo a new user interface, there will be information like names and other data that will appear on my screen.
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A syzygy is a powerful convergence, usually of planets, but in this case of sports teams. The first decade of the 21st century was dominated by Boston sports teams with the city hosting six championship parades. The three Patriots Super Bowl victories, two Red Sox World Series triumphs and Celtics 17th Championship Banner made it a great time to be a Boston sports fan. There were some amazing moments in those titles runs: The Steal, The Tuck, Pierce outplaying LeBron in game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, The Bloody Sock and clutch game-winning field goals. Things were definitely aligned the right away.
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Went to Urgent Care last night. Seems all that Naproxen isn't so great on my stomach, but Rx in hand, it should be OK. You see, you do have to attend to pain sometimes. Now I have the promise of sleep ahead.
And the sun is shining, the breeze kept the mosquitos off as Radar and I checked on the plants. It makes him so happy…just the few minutes of being outside and sniffing the plants as I check on them. All of a sudden he's running back and forth on the front lawn, flipping over with all four paws in the air and rolling about with glee.
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These recommendation forms are for the MIT Sloan MBA & LGO 2016-17 application season. Generally speaking, recommendation forms do not change from year to year so it's a safe bet to assume that the same recommendation form will be used during the 2017-18 application season. When the 2017-18 application goes live (summer 2017) the download file and this page will be updated.
MIT Sloan requires that MBA applicants submit two recommendations.
Professional recommendations are preferred from individuals who are able to speak with certainty about your professional achievements and potential. Recommendations may be in either letter or short answer format and should not exceed two pages each. Please note: We do not accept recommendations from family members.
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Before you ask someone for a recommendation it's best to understand what types of questions the school will put to them. Asking the CEO of your company for a recommendation may be tempting, but will he/she be able to convincingly convey your strengths and weaknesses to the Sloan Admissions Committee? The best recommenders are those that have observed you interacting with others on a regular basis.
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I MIT Sloan MBA & LGO Letter of Recommendation
The mission of t he MIT Sloan School of Management is t o develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and generate ideas that advance management practice Your recommendation letter will assist the Admissions Committee in selecting a class that will contribute toward this mission. The Admissions Committee may cont act you for further information.
We are interested in specific examples of intellectual and professional achievement and how they might relate to graduate study in management and in a career as a manager or business leader. In addition. we are very interested in the character of the applicant and will be helped by any information in that regard.
The letters that are most helpful to the applicant are those that utilize the template below and point to actual observations of the candidate's actions. If you do not feel sufficiently informed to answer a particular question. please indicate'not observed' or 'not applicable'.
Please compose your answers to the following questions in one document and then upload below. Recommendations should be no longer than two pages. Upload a word or PDF document.
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AL YOUNG'S POETRY CHAT with California Arts Council Director CRAIG WATSON
Director Craig Watson outlines his vision for
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What did it mean to you to be the California Poet Laureate?
For me, it was an opportunity to continue doing what I've perceived myself having done my entire writing career. Wearing the title of poet laureate made it easier for people to imagine they understood I had a mission—something worth paying attention to. Up until my appointment, I had not understood the power of a title like poet laureate; it was almost like being knighted.
That gave you entrée to some places, people, and students that maybe hadn't been as attentive as before?
Yes, what I'm emphasizing here is the quality of attention. People tend not to take artists too seriously, and certainly they don't take poets seriously until they are recognized in some official capacity.
Right after being appointed, do you remember one of the earliest calls for engaging you?
Well, I think the very first call was from National Public Radio (since then legally renamed NPR), who wanted to interview me. That turned out to be quite a good thing.
That's a pretty good platform, yes?
Any time poetry appears on a national stage, it's a good day.
I agree. I think a society without poetry or a society that doesn't reserve a special place for poetry and the arts is truly an impoverished society. When I served as California's Poet Laureate, I saw how comforting and how accommodating I could be not only to all kinds of institutions, but to people in general. Wherever I found myself, people were hungry and eager to hear what I had to say. Poetry is important to people, even to people who don't often think about it in a formal way. It's a language used imaginatively at a deep level; it's the same kind of thing that Dana Gioia spoke to so eloquently at the Poetry Out Loud State Competition in Sacramento.
Yes, Dana's talk was great. It was fun to see the high school students get to their feet before us oldsters could.
Yes, that's because they appreciate being spoken to with such eloquence. It'Äôs about language. Language largely circulates in a degraded state in public discourse today. I listen to the way politicians and corporate representatives speak and it appalls me.
Sadly true.
It'Äôs not just about usage or grammatical and rhetorical forms; it'Äôs really about concern and respect for the listener, the people whom you're speaking to. Very few take the time to prepare something beautiful.
To read the rest of this chat, go to the California Arts Council's website
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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
Yale University Press. 272 pp. $24
Oct. 11, 2009
Chapter One"if they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening"
At nine o'clock on Monday morning, October 15,1894, a French artillery officer serving as a trainee with the army's General Staff reported to the Ministry of War building on rue Saint-Dominique, in the aristocratic faubourg Saint-Germain of Paris, obeying an order delivered to his apartment the preceding Saturday. It had summoned officer trainees to an inspection by the General Staff. The morning hour was unusual; inspections routinely took place in the evening. So was the requirement that the officer be in mufti. To his surprise, on arrival he was met by Major Georges Picquart, who said he would escort him to the office of the chief, General Charles Le Mouton de Boisdeffre. The officer's surprise was compounded when he realized that neither the general nor any other officer trainee was present. Instead, he saw an officer who introduced himself as Major Armand Mercier du Paty de Clam and three unknown civilians. Du Paty explained that the generalwould be back shortly and, pleading injury to his right hand, asked the officer to take down a letter, which he dictated from a document that would soon become infamous as the bordereau (account). The letter finished, du Paty drew himself up to his considerable full height, put his hand on the officer's shoulder, and bellowed: "In the name of the law, I put you under arrest; you are accused of high treason." The civilians pounced on the officer and searched him.
The artillery officer was, of course, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who became in the decade that followed one of the best-known men in Europe, if not in the world. The three civilians were the chief of Sűreté générale, the police attached to the Ministry of the Interior, which was often entrusted with political tasks; his secretary; and Félix Gribelin, the archivist at the Section de statistique (Statistics Section), the intelligence and counterintelligence unit of the General Staff. Concealed behind a curtain and watching the proceedings was Major Joseph Henry, also of the Statistics Section. Henry took over after the arrest and escorted Dreyfus to the military prison on rue du Cherche-midi, a very long street on the Left Bank that stretches from the sixth to the fifteenth arrondissement.
So it happened that with only one exception the principal actors of the drama about to commence were all onstage for its first act. Missing was Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy. Also off-stage, but waiting in the wings, were the top brass: General Auguste Mercier, the minister of war; Boisdeffre; Arthur Gonse, deputy chief of staff; and Lieutenant Colonel Jean Sandherr, chief of the Statistics Section, who reported to Gonse. Over the course of the next five years, the three generals would inspire, encourage, dictate, and sanction by their authority the illegal and often bizarre actions of their subordinates.
The events leading up to the arrest have been related many times. On July 24, 1894, Major Esterhazy, a French officer, offered to sell important French military secrets to the German military attaché in Paris, Lieutenant Colonel Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen. Esterhazy was a descendant of the illegitimate French branch of the ancient and illustrious Austro-Hungarian family, which had never acknowledged the French offshoot. An amoral sociopath, Esterhazy lied, intrigued, and swindled obsessively. He was chronically in debt; his wife, a French aristocrat who had married him over the vehement objections of her family, had found it necessary to take legal measures to protect her small personal fortune from his depredations. Schwartzkoppen had hesitated about the wisdom of employing a French officer as a spy, but, concerned about important opportunities he might otherwise miss, he had consulted his superiors in Berlin. With their approval, he accepted Esterhazy's offer. According to Schwartzkoppen, in the course of an hour and a half's subsequent conversation at the embassy on September I, Esterhazy told him much that was of interest and gave him an artillery manual and memoranda he had written on the subject of the new short 120-millimeter cannon being developed by the French, French troop positions and modifications in the battle order of artillery units, and plans for the imminent invasion and colonization of Madagascar. The delivery of these documents was memorialized in the bordereau, which was unsigned and undated and written on onionskin paper. The reference to the 120-millimeter cannon was particularly important because a huge effort was being made by the French military to develop a weapon that would erase the advantage in artillery ordnance that had contributed to Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Shortly after its receipt by the attaché, the bordereau reached the Statistics Section through "la voie normale" (usual channel). This euphemism referred to Madame Marie Bastian, a cleaning woman at the German Embassy who was in the pay of the Section. One of her daily duties was to empty Schwartzkoppen's wastebasket and throw the contents into the furnace. Instead, she delivered any papers she found in it to a representative of the Statistics Section. Most frequently this was Major Henry, one of whose tasks was to deal regularly with the large and motley clan of corrupt servants, concierges, and double agents employed by the Section.
That had been as well the trajectory of the bordereau, which came into Henry's hands on September 26 along with a batch of other documents. It had been torn into pieces, but because it was in French-unlike most documents from Schwartzkoppen's wastebasket-Henry was able put it back together without the help of his German-speaking colleague Captain Jules Lauth. The bordereau's importance was apparent to him as soon as he had read it. The next day he showed the reconstituted document to his chief, Sandherr. The range of secrets being sold led Sandherr and his General Staff colleagues to assume that the traitor must be a knowledgeable insider working at the ministry. There had been other recent leaks of secrets that had seemed to emanate from there, and the Statistics Section had been investigating them without success. The bordereau underscored the vital importance of finding the traitor.
The new investigation was conducted with almost clownish incompetence. The handwriting on the bordereau was compared with the handwriting on other intercepted documents in the Section's files. It did not match any of them. What's more, none of the heads of the four General Staff departments recognized the handwriting as belonging to one of their junior officers. As a result, after a little over a week, the effort to identify the author of the bordereau was about to be abandoned. The situation changed dramatically on October 6 when, like a demon ex machina, Lieutenant Colonel Albert d'Aboville returned from vacation. Newly promoted, he was pleased with the opportunity to show off, and promptly announced that he had found the solution that had eluded his colleagues. It consisted in zeroing in on the profile of the culprit. According to d'Aboville, in order to be able to provide data relating to the cannon, the author had to be an artillery officer. Moreover, because of the variety of the other subjects enumerated in the bordereau, he had to be someone familiar with the entire spectrum of the General Staff's work. In d'Aboville's opinion, this narrowed the field to officer trainees because they rotated from department to department and became familiar with the work of each. Although cockily self-assured, d'Aboville was wrong: Esterhazy was an infantry officer serving with a line regiment whose knowledge of the subjects enumerated in the bordereau was limited and superficial. This had not deterred him from addressing them; he wrote well and with brio and was accustomed to making his readers think he knew more than he did.
A list of trainees was produced, and the name Dreyfus immediately stood out. As an artillery officer trainee, he fit d'Aboville's specifications. Moreover, both d'Aboville and his immediate superior, Colonel Pierre-Elie Fabre, knew Dreyfus and disliked him. Fabre, in fact, had recently given Dreyfus a negative review, in which he had recognized Dreyfus's intelligence and talent but condemned his pretentiousness, unsatisfactory attitude, and faults of character. A sample of Dreyfus's handwriting was called for: it seemed to those present to resemble the handwriting on the bordereau. The resemblance should not have been surprising; at that time the slanted, highly cursive script was taught at every school. Gonse and Boisdeffre were alerted, and Boisdeffre briefed the minister of war, General Mercier. Du Paty's interest in graphology was known to his colleagues on the General Staff, and he was asked for his views. After studying the handwritings over the weekend, du Paty confirmed the conclusion reached by the group: the handwritings were identical. Dreyfus was the traitor.
Dreyfus, the only Jewish officer trainee on the General Staff, was fated to be singled out. Anti-Semitism-of the traditional religious sort, as well as economic and racial-had reached an intensity never before experienced in France. Although they had maintained correct professional relations with Dreyfus, the officers preparing to accuse Dreyfus were anti-Semites. If only for that reason, they disliked him. At the same time it must be recognized that Sandherr, his colleagues, and their superiors were not inventing a crime or looking for a Jew to be the scapegoat. The bordereau was a real document, a real traitor was at work, and it was a routine counterintelligence task of the Statistics Section to find him. That is what these officers were attempting. The superficial resemblance between Esterhazy's and Dreyfus's handwritings was likewise real. But Dreyfus's being a Jew made it easier for his fellow officers to accuse him. He was not "one of them"; according to anti-Semitic propaganda, as a Jew he wasn't really French. Therefore the stain on the honor of the General Staff of treason having been committed by a French officer assigned to it would be avoided. Dreyfus's presence on the General Staff, even if only provisional, was an anomaly-and would have been such on the general staff of any European army. In the opinion of traditionalist officers, the unfortunate aberration went to prove that the modern recruiting reforms in the General Staff, modeled on the German practice of relying on competitive examinations, had been ill advised. Under the cooptation system previously in use, a Jewish officer would never have been admitted into the precincts of the General Staff or have had the opportunity to spy on its work.
A little over a week after Dreyfus's arrest, which was still being kept secret, Sandherr visited Maurice Paléologue at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bring him confidentially up to date on the most sensitive matter then being dealt with by the Statistics Section, one which had already given rise to a good deal of gossip. Paléologue was a young diplomat-he was twenty-seven at the time-with the rank of embassy secretary. He was attached to the ministry's own Intelligence Section and was the de facto representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Statistics Section and, more generally, to the General Staff. Descended from the Paléologue emperors of Byzantium, he occupied a brilliant position in Parisian society that made it possible for him to be on terms of easy friendship with his minister, the president of the republic, and many other much older men in positions of power. Paléologue kept ajournal in which he recorded Sandherr's remarks: "The officer charged with treason is a Jew, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who has just finished a long training period in the various departments of the General Staff. That is why he could obtain so much information. In addition, his indiscreet curiosity, his constant snooping, his air of mystery, and finally his false and conceited character, 'in which one recognizes all the pride and all the ignominy of his race,' have made him suspect for a long time."
The statement that Dreyfus had been under suspicion before the discovery of the bordereau and the comparison of handwritings was an outright fabrication and illustrates the effort Sandherr and his cohort had made-and would continue to make-to validate retrospectively the charge of treason and fit Dreyfus into an anti-Semitic stereotype. The prejudice against Dreyfus, on the other hand, was real and explains why the case against him was mishandled. If Dreyfus had been a typical General Staff officer-a Catholic and an offshoot of a military or aristocratic family or a member of the solid Catholic or Protestant bourgeoisie-considerably more objective and expert scrutiny of the two handwritings, as well as a motive for the crime, would have been required before he was charged. But Dreyfus's accusers could say to themselves that he was a man without a country and, like all Jews, a traitor by nature.
The two months that preceded the trial were spent by the Statistics Section in a sometimes frantic and generally frustrating attempt to strengthen the case against Dreyfus. To the intense annoyance of the minister, General Mercier, the in-house expert employed by the Banque de France whom the Ministry consulted gave as his opinion that despite the similarities in handwriting the bordereau could have been written by someone other than Dreyfus. Alphonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Department of the Judicial Police, whose opinion was also sought, propounded an elaborate theory of self-forgery to explain dissimilarities between the handwritings, which were both Dreyfus's: Dreyfus, he held, had altered his handwriting on purpose, copying in certain instances the handwriting of others. Of the three additional experts also consulted, all qualified to give testimony before courts, two declared that the handwriting was Dreyfus's and one that it was not. Mercier was so pleased with Bertillon's work that he arranged for him to explain his system to Jean Casimir-Perier, the president of the republic. After the visit, Casimir-Perier confided to Paléologue that this expert was not simply bizarre, he was mad: a fugitive from an insane asylum. It is difficult to believe that the president, holding that view, would have remained passive if the life of a non-Jewish officer had been at stake. The dissenting views of the Banque de France expert and of one of the experts retained subsequently did not give Mercier pause. He became convinced that Dreyfus was guilty within days after receiving du Paty's report, and his conviction remained unshakeable.
Mercier's decision to prosecute Dreyfus was not universally welcomed in the highest echelons of the government and the army. As military governor of Paris and vice president of the Conseil supérieur de guerre, General Félix Saussier was the highest-ranking French army officer. He deplored the effect on the army of accusing an officer of treason and had doubts about Dreyfus's guilt. Nevertheless, when his approval was required for the prosecution to go forward, he signed the necessary papers. Again according to Paléologue, Saussiersubsequentlyshared with Casimir-Perier his view that Dreyfus was not guilty; Mercier had once again shot himself in the foot. When asked by the president why, in that case, he had issued the order sending Dreyfus before the court-martial, he replied that the report on the investigation had left him no alternative, and besides it didn't matter-the military judges who heard the case would decide it fairly and justly. Saussier had previously advised Mercier that it might be wiser to send Dreyfus to Africa, where the French army was engaged in frequent skirmishes with hostile tribes, in the hope that he would be killed there. The minister's retort was that he would more likely come back with a promotion. Gabriel Hanotaux, the minister of foreign affairs, was also opposed to the prosecution. He feared the diplomatic consequences of revealing that an agent of the Statistics Section had been stealing documents from the German embassy and publicizing the fact that Schwartzkoppen, a German Imperial Guard officer and an accredited diplomat, was engaged in spying. Hanotaux's concerns were so strong that, at his insistence, the prime minister, Charles Dupuy, likewise of two minds about the case, made Mercier promise not to proceed with the case unless additional proof of guilt were obtained.
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