At the sidewalk he stopped, put down his case next to the sugar maple, wiped his jacket sleeve across his forehead, and gazed up the block as if he were the new boy in school, getting ready to cross the school yard, where faces were already turning to stare at him.

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Getting the 1.8 million children back to school in time for the new term is one of the biggest operations the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has ever undertaken.

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Oftentimes they are getting parents to participate in new ways in the school.

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The race has been a massive success and the odds for a New Yorker of getting in through the lottery must be close to getting your kid into an Ivy League school.

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The actress, who was previously married to Jude Law, said she was preparing for a new role, but had otherwise been "getting on with the school runs and being a mummy at home".

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