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Hsing Wei, the other Kennedy School intern, said she and her partner, stationed in the Midwest, found unmanned guard booths at some facilities, entered the labs with minimal background checks in most places, left their bags near the reactors in two of the places, and walked inside one lab with their bags...
...meal plan is designed to provide access equally to students despite socio-economic background,” Mayer says...
...Village School (1852), set in Scotland, a local bigwig and his wife listen to the youngest students reading, while some of the older pupils taunt their young black servant. Such story pictures were put together from studies of professional models. Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton often turns up in the background of biblical subjects, but later in the century black models appeared on the losing side in topical battle pictures. Prints like Lts Coghill and Melville Saving the Colours, Zulu War, 1879 (1882), after Adolphe Alphonse de Neuville, may look stagey to us, but even back then not everyone found them...
...teachers is a lack of sufficient knowledge in their subject of instruction. Even a Rhodes Scholar’s expertise must be coupled with substantial teacher training, but, by the time we complete our intense concentration requirements, most of us at least have the essential subject background needed to teach at the elementary if not the high school level. Don’t let those semesters in History 10b or Math 21a go to waste!8. Never a dull moment: No matter how brilliant your melt-in-your-mouth economics lesson is, two classes never unfold in exactly the same...
Well, Gervais has a new sitcom, “Extras,” and fortunately we can watch it Sundays on HBO at 10:30 p.m. in its unprocessed, un-pasteurized British form. The new program follows Gervais as Andy Millman, a struggling extra (or, as he coins himself, background artist) trying desperately to get that coveted line in a film. Obviously the biggest challenge for Gervais with this series is to distance himself from his iconic incarnation as David Brent. Like “The Office,” “Extras” follows the insatiable quest...