Word: understandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...admitted, the atmosphere of college athletics breeds far more attention.“With the Duke thing or the Northwestern women’s soccer team,” he said, referencing another highly publicized incident from the spring, “I think right now athletes have to understand they are going to be held to a higher standard than regular students. We constantly educate our kids [that] you’re not representing yourself, you’re representing the university, you’re representing the football program. And therefore you have to understand that there?...
...11—challenging Harvard’s position as the premier hub of black studies. On Monday, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman announced plans for the university to expand its African American studies program and contribute to the “quest to achieve racial equality and understand the impact of race on the life and institutions of the United States.” In an e-mail response to the news at Princeton, the chair of African and African American Studies at Harvard, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, wrote, “We celebrate the idea of Princeton?...
...working with 46-year-olds on the same projects," he'd marvel. Tasked with finding bugs in a flight simulator, he didn't know which was harder to learn: the programming language or the language of work. "I had to speak and write in a way that adults would understand, or the project would be at risk," he says. "They dress in shorts there, but it's still a very serious business...
...Research shows internships help prepare youth for the world of work in other subtle ways. "Collaboration is complex," says Reed Larson, a psychologist at the University of Illinois who studies adolescent development. "Learning to understand a point of view, coordinating strategies, influencing key people - I think it's essential that people start learning these skills at an early age." Schools and jobs at McDonald's don't teach those tools, she adds...
...certain profound ways I think the spooks didn't understand An any better than we journalists did later. He was, above all things - including journalism - a nationalist; he loved, above all things - including communism - Vietnam. He liked the French and the Americans he knew and spoke their languages well, but he didn't want to see his country Frenchified or Americanized. Or, for that matter, communized, which is probably why he was placed under house arrest and "re-educated" after the Vietnam War ended...