Word: attendant
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...grows up, and he'll say he wants to sail on Shosholoza. "They've proved that they have the passion and the inspiration to take on such a tough challenge," says Alinghi's helmsman and sports director Jochen Schümann, who was in Cape Town recently to attend a Shosholoza charity auction. "It's an open question how far they will get." For many of South Africa's young sailors, blazing a trail for the next multiracial generation of sailors is victory in itself...
Many parents think it is the job of educators to fix the problem. Do they really think teachers wave their knowledge wands and--poof!--the student is the next Stephen Hawking? Students who want to drop out should get parental permission first and then attend a dropout seminar. They should be allowed a grace period to find a job, to work and experience the consequences. Many students feel embarrassed about leaving and don't want to come back to school shamed or disgraced. To curb the embarrassment of returning to school, dropouts should be required to make another decision...
...Hines) and their disaffected offspring. They are, as you might imagine, oppressed by getting and spending somewhat beyond their means, and their whole way of life is threatened by Bob?s fat-headed and sadistic boss. He insists that Bob cancel a family vacation in Hawaii in order to attend a merger meeting in Colorado. Bob refuses to admit the pressure he?s under, rents an ungainly RV and pretends the trip will re-bond his family...
...snag Bob’s executive position at the PureVibe soda corporation, Bob goes to desperate lengths to keep his job secure. He cancels his family’s upcoming tropical vacation and instead takes them on a road trip in a rented R.V., so that he may surreptitiously attend a business juncture in the Colorado Rockies. Williams finds himself in familiar territory with this role: he assumes the same affable-dad-who-just-wants-to-reconnect-with-his-kids persona that he took on in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Hook...
...after getting over my initial paralyzing self-doubt, it was fun to discuss some of the material from class in more depth. (In the interest of full disclosure, I still am uncomfortable going by myself. I usually find a friend in the class to go with me.) 8. Attend athletic events—Harvard-Yale doesn’t count. Believe it or not, there are several varsity, JV, and club sporting events to choose from every weekend. I am probably one of the least athletic people in the world, but its still fun going to a football or hockey...