Word: teacheres
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...Harvard men have spent the last 20 or so years being told by their mothers, their grandmothers, and every teacher in their high school that they are the eighth wonder of the world...
...least have had the chance to pursue some of our own dreams, should struggle beside those who never really were given the chance to dream in the first place?What if, for example, we all spent at least a few years trying to do some good as a teacher or community organizer in an at-risk neighborhood instead of going off to the elite firm? What if, to take it to another level, we committed our lives to eliminating “at-risk neighborhoods” altogether, to changing the odds so poor kids don’t have...
...less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo to watch is Yale graduate and math teacher Kena Heffernan. "He's a very exciting wrestler but not that big," says Yonezuka. "Only...
...pages later, he's not only describing the Marx Brothers jumping all over Somerset Maugham, "screaming like devils," but also watching Aldous Huxley and Charlie Chaplin singing old London music-hall songs on the Santa Monica Pier. No wonder the unchanging center of Isherwood's life, the Hindu Vedantist teacher Swami Prabhavananda, asked his worldly disciple to bring the Duke of Windsor to his Hollywood temple: Isherwood was the rare Hollywood Hindu who did justice to both the adjective and the noun...
...didn’t forge friendships any more easily than he lured ladies. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study under the aging composer Joseph Haydn in an all-star match-up of historical heavyweights akin to Alexander and Aristotle, or Rocky and Tommy Gunn. The teacher and pupil never clicked though, and Beethoven was soon free to pursue his own devices. His skills were a key to the world of the privileged, and he picked up many friends among the aristocracy. By the age of 25, he had performed before the king of Prussia...