Word: avoiding
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...speak, who will contribute week-in and week-out, whether or not he has done the reading. Let's call him Johnny. We TF's have what the twelve-step programs would call a co-dependent, highly dysfunctional relationship with Johnny. We need Johnny, but want very much to avoid becoming addicted to him. On a good day Johnny will galvanize the room, firing up an exciting, inclusive discussion. On a bad day Johnny will talk for roughly forty-five minutes, pausing only for oxygen and fluids...
Indeed there is usually an easy way to spot the unprepared, namely to ask a question and then see who begins rifling through their materials in a wild, desperate attempt to avoid making eye-contact. People frantically and aimlessly search through their notebooks as if the mysteries of the universe, let alone the answer to the question, could be found there. The look on their face is intent, as if they had just written an essay on that very question and if only they could find it buried deep in their cavernous backpack, they could address the issue. Their eyes...
...assumed to be residents of Straus and Wigglesworth, the FDO's policy has the deleterious effect of making student police their neighbors. Rather than supporting a sense of community, collective responsibility necessitates vigilance and suspicion. Indeed the bills mailed to Wigglesworth residents told the unlucky recipients that they could avoid the charge if they were to become informants...
...glossies, making their bedrooms look like preteen minimum-security prison cells. Worse, they know he's out there on the Web somewhere, everywhere, and they force me at whine-point to find him. Which explains why I was online the other night, a daughter on each knee, trying to avoid the king of Leo sites, www.dicaprio.com "Rumor has it," Zoe read aloud, "that Playgirl is attempting to print unauthorized nude photos of Leo in their July issue. Click here if you'd like to sign a digital letter of protest...
...life, which ended when he lost a fight with lymphoma a few weeks ago, he showed a deeper, personal bravery that made him someone very special indeed. As a German boy of eight, he and his mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first job with TIME, in 1965, he was one of our most fearless war correspondents in Vietnam. He repeated that role in the vicious war in Lebanon in 1975. He then held postings around the world and became the managing...