Word: programed
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...growth in elementary school Latin has been spurred by new, interactive oral curriculums, enlivened by lessons in Roman mythology and culture. "One thing that makes it engaging for kids is the goofy fun of investigating these guys in togas," says Marion Polsky, author of First Latin: A Language Discovery Program, the textbook used in Fairfax City...
...declarations that you're on the wagon, as Downey did in Vanity Fair and other publications, doesn't help. The feeling that your struggle is on full public view adds stress that can help trigger a relapse. That's one reason, says Moyer, that the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program and others like it counsel against self-disclosure to the media...
...Canadians discuss programs this time around? I am happy to say that while the American candidates were exchanging trumped-up numbers about the cost of prescription drugs, Canadians, thanks to a CBC television program's campaign to satirize the Alliansistas' belief in national referenda, were gathering signatures for a referendum that would require Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris...
...when you read all this commentary about how the winner of the American presidential election will in some sense have lost, think of Stockwell Day. If his party had triumphed, he could have found himself named Doris Day, the television program's campaign having drawn more than twice the number of signatures that Alliance-ators had considered necessary to put an issue before the people. Every time he rose in Parliament to make a speech, some Liberal smart aleck would shout from the back benches, "Give us a song, Doris!" This is a man who won by losing...
DIED. SIR MALCOLM BRADBURY, 68, British biographer, novelist, critic, teacher and champion of young writers; after a long illness; in Norwich, England. In 1970, with Angus Wilson, Bradbury founded England's first creative-writing program at the University of East Anglia--to the consternation of British academics, who insisted writing could not be taught. Graduates of the program included future Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro...