Word: professors
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...want it to be inspirational, kind of like a Tuesdays with Morrie thing," said Jennifer Lang, Ellison's acquiring editor at Hyperion Books, referring to Mitch Albom's 1997 memoir. The book tells the story of a young man's meetings with his dying former college professor...
...former professor at the Belgrade University Law School, Kostunica was expelled in the 1974 by the Communist authorities because of his democratic beliefs. He has been active in Serbia's political arena for the past decade and remains the only major opposition politician who never even met Milosevic personally, let alone cooperated with his regime. Even his opponents admit that he is stubbornly persistent in his views, a fact that has contributed to his reputation of incorruptibility and honesty. He is also a moderate nationalist and a relentless critic of the West, which makes him all the more appealing...
Turkle, a sociology professor, is a leading expert on the folkways of what she calls our newly emergent "culture of simulation." Her origins are decidedly nontech; the Brooklyn-born Turkle started out studying French philosophy (and working as a live-in housekeeper) in Paris. Her early writings focused on how people used psychoanalytic concepts to forge their identities. But when she arrived at M.I.T. to teach, she found herself in a world in which people turned to computers, not Freud, as personal reference points...
...been designated don't know they have been picked. Even our faith leaders, the people many of us seek out for guidance near the end, have a hard time giving it. "The truth is, clergy are frequently not comfortable with end-of-life care," says Keith Meador, Duke University professor of theology and medicine. A report found that one-third of clergy members had no training to help dying people...
...semesters passing as a student to research his novel, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which he later adapted for the screen. Crowe has been educating himself as a filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says, taught him how to make his gonzo structure hold together. Like Brooks, Crowe resists traditional screenplay rules, instead laying out his scenes...