Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Danang. Other place names, other landmarks testify to the tragic fortunes of outsiders who visited Viet Nam in the past and later wished they had never come. In meting out their "lesson," the Chinese?like the French and Americans before them?could find Viet Nam to be an unruly classroom...
Funding the Core Curriculum. Roughly $24 million is slated for this, the most glamorous and concrete of the drive's goals. It is not clear right now exactly where the money will go; but course development, administrative costs, and classroom renovation for the Core are sure to cost the Faculty a good deal...
Negotiations take place entirely out of the classroom, and are discussed and analyzed back in the class after the settlements are reached. One-third of the final grade is based on how good a contract each person secures, plus how well the student analyzes the game...
...bazaar section of Tehran where Khomeini lived. There, in two cramped and dingy rooms on the second floor, he would shuffle to the window a dozen times a day to greet the unending sea of believers who came to hail him. Elsewhere in the same school, in a drab classroom furnished with three desks, a file cabinet and a typewriter, Prime Minister Bazargan ran the government. He sat cross-legged on a rug-covered wooden platform where he took his meals, greeted visitors and prayed...
...Stockdale brings to his classroom a unique set of credentials: a bachelor's degree in engineering from Annapolis (he finished 130th in the class of 1947, behind Jimmy Carter, who was 60th, and CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who was 25th); a master's in international relations from Stanford; and a doctorate in heroism from 7½ years as the senior American P.O.W. at Hoa Lo prison, the infamous Hanoi Hilton...