Word: attendant
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Murray’s gesture, while clearly well intentioned, makes him look desperate for an audience, as though it were the students doing him a favor in attending his lecture. This unfortunate approach compromises the essential teacher-student dynamic. If teachers feel indebted to their students for attending lecture, then students will feel a complementary sense of entitlement. Yet, let’s all put education in perspective: students pay to attain knowledge that is priceless in and of itself. This is the only financial incentive that should compel students to attend lectures...
...thereby eliminating the need to come to class on time, if at all. Instead of resorting to dirty bribery to motivate its students to crawl out from the bed a few minutes earlier, administrators ought to cut some of these extraneous perks—perks that enable students to attend lecture electronically from their desks at their leisure, when they are feeling more alert...
GRIZZLY MAN WERNER HERZOG For a darker parable of nature, attend the poignant, unsettling tale of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers among the wild bears of southern Alaska, until he and his girlfriend were mauled to pieces. With the aid of more than 90 hours of Treadwell's video footage, plus interviews with those who knew him, Herzog gets into the mind of a man who thought his nearness to the bears was a triumph of cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was tempting the fate he eventually, tragically achieved...
Students in the program attend the Kennedy School on a full-time basis for one year and then study at both schools for the next two or three years. At the end of their studies, the students receive MBAs in addition to MPA or MPP degrees...
...paid to the sole at-home caregiver--wife, daughter, husband, son--who copes with years of unceasing care for a loved one, as witness to a kind of death in slow motion. We need to better understand the impact of the relentless pressure on the health of those who attend to Alzheimer's patients. That should be the subject of serious ongoing research. What is certain is that as people live longer, Alzheimer's will increasingly dominate our lives. KEITH GLEGG L'Orignal...