It is tough to be a pacifist during war because pacifists are so often accused of being traitorous — which really means antistate and antimurder.

National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.

Depending on the layout, you may be able to partition off the dining area, perhaps with a countertopped unit that doubles as a breakfast bar.

And a long and interesting conversation ended without her charging her own failures on Marianne, though Marianne would not let her fix them on Wolsey, and with regret at having an engagement with Miss Cassilis, when she was unfitted for music, and the fallal of unindeared intercourse.