Word: teach
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...hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody." Yet he can be remarkably highhanded when chairing union meetings, often interrupting speakers in mid-sentence and imposing his own views...
...games are cheeky manuals for self-styled robber barons. A few also teach the players something about business. Alan Teck, director of Chemical Bank's financial consulting services, developed the hot-selling Foreign Exchange ($15), in which players work through the arcane world of international finance. He is now developing an other game involving the gold market. Stocks and Bonds ($13) initiates players in the workings of Wall Street, and Limit Up (at $49.95, one of the most expensive of the games) shows potential Bunker Hunts the mysteries of trading silver and other commodities...
...values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original. But even in rigidly traditional epochs, it was human nature for one generation to reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous generation in order to make room for its own. Often enough, when...
...best of "when I grow up I want to be" genre is a $40 dollhouse fashioned to teach youngsters how to be interior decorators in the best suburban snob-zoning tradition...
Although Ezra Vogel, chairman of the Committee on East Asian Studies, said he believes courses in Asian American Studies should be offered, he said that hiring someone within the Committee to teach them is not a high priority. To overcome this problem, Asian American students organized to develop bibliographies, slideshows, and other resources relevant to history. Last spring, after four years of work, students in the AAA and members of the Bureau of Study Counsel reestablished a House seminar on Asian American Identity and Experience. It had been taught only three times before at Harvard...