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...split personality. One one level she overflowed with insight and self-understanding, with love and solicitude and a desire to serve; on another level she was beset with fears and terrors, riven with resentments, hating, as she says, both herself and others. She is afraid her friends will really find her out, and at the same time she is obsessed with the desire to have them see her as she really...
Scott has been teaching for 40 years, and much of the current talk about teacher burnout irritates her. She knows firsthand all the problems and questions that beset teachers. "There's a breakdown in family life. Everyone does his own thing," she admits. "The number of children actually doing the work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework...
...door. Weizman denied any such intention, but he told TIME last week that he would not be unhappy to see Begin's government collapse. In fact, the timing of his departure could hardly have been calculated to do more damage to Begin's grip on power. Beset by an annual inflation rate of 122%, blamed by the Egyptians for the deadlock in the Palestinian autonomy negotiations, and burdened by incessant squabbling within his fractious Cabinet coalition, Begin's government had grown precariously weak...
...Black student familiar with some of the problems which beset Black students here on campus, I will communicate and express my concerns to assist in removing some of Salveit's misunderstandings. Since March 1979 over 31 Black Harvard University students have been the victims of racial harrassment perpetuated by whites in the greater Boston area: this includes one Black medical school student who was beaten unconscious and nearly lost his eyesight on the track by Soldiers Field Park. As of April 1979 there were only 16 Black teaching personnel of a total 851 (less than 2%) within the Harvard University...
...Brokaw's pleasant rasp filled the room. A profound sense of food notstalgia beset him. He was a glass of apple juice. Jane Pauley began to cloy, and abruptly disappeared. Nothing to read. He would kill the nurse if she ever again opened the blinds and woke him and took his blood...