Word: taughtly
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Today, our list of friends and enemies has changed--and so has my perspective on what America really stands for. I thought I was fighting for the America of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--the mythical America whose real life exploits aren't taught in grade school. Now, after following closely President Bush's Operation Desert Shield in the Middle East, I recognize these real life exploits--exploits of unprincipled mega-greed and imperialism...
...summer after her first undergraduate year, Goldin took what she says was a poorly taught summer school economics class. But she says she was "hooked" by the subject's combination of analytical reasoning and concern with the "big questions...
Goldin says that the figures who most influenced her were older economists like former Cornell professor Alfred E. Kahn and Bob Fogel, who taught her at Chicago. But even though she had no women role models, she says she hopes future generations have it different...
Work and political experience: Silber taught philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was appointed dean of the college of arts and sciences. He was appointed president of Boston University in 1970, and has been on leave from the post during the campaign. Silber has never sought political office before...
...comparative literature, was named to chair Harvard's beleagured Afro-American Studies Department this year. Johnson will thus join former chair Werner Sollors as the Department's only permanent faculty members. Johnson is a literary scholar, who has not been previously affiliated with the Afro-Am Department, but has taught classes on Afro-American literature...