Word: teacheres
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...peer in Thomas H. Parker, Fitzsimmons’ counterpart at Amherst, a small, liberal arts college consistently ranked one of the best in the nation. At around the same time that Fitzsimmons was making his cross-cultural journey from Braintree to Harvard, Parker, the son of a gym teacher and a telephone operator, traveled from his home in Brooklyn to Williams College...
...cultural performance night at Northwest University in Xi'an was meant to showcase the international flavor of the school's language institute. Such talent shows at Chinese universities generally cleave to conventions: skits are formal, easy to understand and never bawdy. But when three Japanese students and a Japanese teacher took the stage they had something a little more racy in mind...
...teacher held a female mannequin in his hand. "This is my girlfriend," he said. "She's too fat, and she ought to go on a diet." Then the three students, who wore cardboard boxes on their heads inscribed with words like "sushi" and "ninja," cast off overcoats to reveal they were wearing red brassieres, with paper cups protruding suggestively from between their legs. They began to dance, gyrating their hips in a manner that "for Chinese was just nauseating," said one spectator. After three minutes university authorities frantically motioned for the organizers to close the curtains. The Japanese contingent...
...emancipation the women are permitted. To Seierstad, the middle-aged Khan has been conditioned to think of them as chattel, taking a second spouse, a comely adolescent, when he tires of his aging wife. He forces his educated youngest sister to sacrifice her dreams of becoming an English teacher for an arranged marriage with her unemployed cousin, a man who has never opened a book. "In his heart he wanted Afghanistan to be a modern country," writes Seierstad, "but when it came to ruling his family, Sultan had only one model: his father." It's a view he adamantly disputes...
...Bill brings to this position a deep familiarity with and respect for the Peabody Museum and its mission,” Kirby said. “He is a renowned scholar and teacher, who has already served with distinction as chair of our Anthropology Department. He knows well the significant challenges and opportunities that lie ahead...