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...Similar to a health nutritionist crafting a dietary plan, members of the Bok Center offer numerous recommendations for failing TFs—they are taught how to frame and signpost their discussions, ask follow-up questions, keep conversation on track, and are given tips on what to do with dominant or shy students...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Teachers Go Back to School | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

TIME: Dr. Collins, you have described humanity's moral sense not only as a gift from God but as a signpost that he exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...example, Hindy, a former newspaper reporter, called legendary designer Milton Glaser (best known for his I ? NY logo) every day for weeks to persuade him to create their logo. Glaser's name lent them some instant cool, and that distinctive B is now a familiar New York City signpost. When distributors balked at selling tiny lots of their beer, Hindy and Potter drove the trucks themselves and found salesmen who would patiently teach bar managers and convenience-store owners about specialty beer. They even started distributing rival beers, turning that into a hugely profitable business. "It kept us alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer Buddies | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...latest signpost in the Bush Administration's hegira from lunatic idealism to utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment. Iraq's fate--well, the U.S.'s fate in Iraq--will be decided in the next six months. There are few optimists left in the Congress, intelligence community or U.S. military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Saviors in Strange Places | 10/22/2005 | See Source »

...seem too creamy sometimes, his legend so large it starts to overwhelm the output of his brief life. The Jewish Museum show, which was organized by curator Mason Klein, seeks to complicate our understanding of Modigliani. For one thing, it argues that each of his portraits is a signpost of the outsider, that Modigliani's art is the outcome of his position as a stranger in the Paris art world, an Italian and a Sephardic Jew in a France where the air was still poisoned by the Dreyfus affair. ("I am Modigliani, Jew" is how he sometimes introduced himself, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bad Boy Of The School Of Paris | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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