Word: ancients
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This is school? Kindness is an ancient virtue, but the idea of formally teaching six- and seven-year-olds to give compliments in an inner-city public school is brand-new. In New Haven all students from kindergarten through high school take part in the district's Social Development Program, which weaves "emotional learning" exercises--like the ball-rolling game--into the fabric of an ordinary school day. School officials say problem-solving and stress-management skills are as essential as literature and long division to a '90s education. "We believe it needs to be comprehensive, just like science...
...third-floor Rec. Room early for my Friday afternoon appointment, just as the club's introductory meeting is letting out and a practice is starting up. Rawson, a squat, bald man is standing in a corner, instructing one of his boxers. Wearing a collared shirt and ancient plaid pants, he seems to have forgotten how men his age are supposed to act: he throws a jab at the young boxer from time to time and he's bouncing on the balls of his feet, weaving somewhat nimbly from side to side...
...depressing to see an entire public so easily led by the nose. But it could have been worse. The marshaling of mass anger is an ancient art and, in even more cynical and calculating hands, a deadly one. In our lifetime it has been used to make the mob bay not for the tears of the Windsors but for the blood of the Hutu...
...Lions seem the perfect test for a Crimson team that, in its crucial fourth year under Coach Tim Murphy, finally appears ready to compete for an Ivy League championship. Columbia shocked the Ancient Eight last season when its 5-2 league record (8-2 overall) was good enough for second in the league behind undefeated Dartmouth...
...series will actually feature only six "wonders," Gates said, including pieces on the ancient region of Nubia, the Swahili Coast and Timbuktu...