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...what the great professors do—he was a great scholar and teacher. He was there all the time as a resource of advice and encouragement,” said Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, a history professor who studied under Ford...
Despite all the accolades, Ford earned a reputation among his students as a private and modest teacher with a lean, yet erudite lecture style. He was known to offer tacit guidance rather than overbearing direction...
...during the last days of Earth. Gigantic floods aren't enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space that distracts a talentless student. With an excellent variety of stories that go from cute to existential, editor and designer Chris Pitzer has put together one of the best-looking and best reading anthologies of the year. Printed in black and white and silver...
Some pairs manage to navigate the transition from platonic to romantic and back again. Tracy Livingston, 30, a teacher from Ridgefield, Conn., dated Keith Lawrence on and off in junior high and high school. "By college we realized we were better friends than lovers," she says. These days Livingston, who got married on July 19 (with Lawrence as her "bride dude"), tries to set Lawrence up on dates. Her husband Elliot "is great about our friendship," she says. "I wouldn't have married him if he weren't." The threesome often goes out at night together or plays golf...
...shop," Khan tells him firmly. The book is most compelling when depicting the circumscribed lives of the women in Khan's family. Bright and vivacious Leila, 19, who has work-worn hands and a vitamin D deficiency because she rarely sees sunlight, speaks English and dreams of becoming a teacher, but her lot in life is to cook and clean for family members. Seierstad confesses that the treatment of the women challenged her goal to stay out of the story. "I have rarely been as angry as I was with the Khan family," she writes. For Seierstad, staying silent...