Word: backgrounds
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When I tell relatives and friends that teaching high school biology is one of my career aspirations after my four years at Harvard, I inevitably receive the universal response, "That's great," almost immediately followed by, "We need better teachers, we need more teachers." Regardless of educational background, age or relation, people always follow initial words of encouragement with the same short-winded critical recommendations for the American educational system. Are these laconic deprecations simply jabs at a long history of failed schooling or a growing cynicism about a class of teachers and administrators that may be perpetuating a teaching...
When the Olympic flame arrived in Japan, it went out three times in one day. You can hear the ominous music in the background...
During his senior year at high school, Stephen R. Jemison '00, a black student, began to date women of a different ethnic background. It was then, Jemison recalls, that he first noticed the way what one values in a loved one almost inevitably transcends racial divides...
...communities. Nguyen suggests that this is wrong; I assert that it is natural. Just as knitting circles are formed for people who like to knit together, one of the functions of ethnic groups is to provide a place where people of the same ethnicity can join together in a background of shared traditions, history, and culture...
...Olympics, Nagano has its intrinsic debates, but they are sporting and professional ones for the most part or inextricable from the enterprise: the cupidity of organizers, the rebelliousness of snowboarders, and, oh yes, a feud among some of the Russian pair skaters. But all that should prove to be background noise. Breathe deeply. Zen is in the air. The ancient Greeks would have approved and duly declared, Let all hostilities cease, let the Games begin...