Word: teaching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...extra-electoral events this year. So if I were trying to divine the real meaning of 2000, I'd turn to the Today show, where, on the same morning that James Baker appears, trying his level best to look like a principled human being, a Latvian chef will also teach us how to stuff a banana with rabbit, and someone will announce that in the next half-hour we'll talk about a new cure for Parkinson's disease..."plus, live from the plaza--Jewel!" That's history for you. That's Bruegel's Icarus, as Auden pointed...
...drive to create sibling bonds or something like them is to some experts primordial--even for an only child. Parents always have a disproportionate power over offspring, but siblings teach peer-level tolerance, loyalty and constancy--qualities that later apply to colleagues, friends and lovers. In moderation, sibling discord is useful, says psychologist Bank. "If the frustration is too great, it cripples you. But we all need a level of frustration in our lives in order to move ahead...
...people, by the people and for the people" is sheer baloney. In the next U.S. presidential election, the world community should send observers to make sure the whole process takes place without any irregularities. Brazil should cash in and export thousands of its electronic ballot boxes to teach Uncle Sam how to count votes. MARCILIO AFONSO Recife, Brazil...
...long time, I've pondered this thing that we do called writing. I've looked at my words sometimes as if they belonged to a stranger. But each time I teach GWENDOLYN BROOKS, each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths; they tell me where the flesh lives; where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs, "beautiful. Impudent. Ready for life." Where the young "live not for battles won. Live...
While fulfilling his responsibilities as dean takes up an "enormous amount of time," Ellison continues to teach. This semester, he is teaching an upper-level undergraduate anthropology course and will teach graduate seminars as well...