Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frantically waving about underlined passages, drawing diagrams on the board and trying desperately to get Habermas on the phone. For teaching fellows a Loud Section is a precious gift. We just show up for class, then wait for the guys at the CUE Guide to give us a call...
...first day we also identify the student who can be counted on to speak, who will contribute week-in and week-out, whether or not he has done the reading. Let's call him Johnny. We TF's have what the twelve-step programs would call a co-dependent, highly dysfunctional relationship with Johnny. We need Johnny, but want very much to avoid becoming addicted to him. On a good day Johnny will galvanize the room, firing up an exciting, inclusive discussion. On a bad day Johnny will talk for roughly forty-five minutes, pausing only for oxygen and fluids...
...record: yes, you can install Netscape Navigator on Win 98 machines, and even run IE and Navigator simultaneously. But IE launches much faster than Navigator, and so far at least, Microsoft won't let PC makers replace the Explorer icon with Navigator's. Gates' critics call this his typical recalcitrance and hope Justice or the states scuttle the Win 98 launch...
Some friends call him Buddha, and Soona has often called Vili "an old soul trapped in a young body." He has always seemed mature. In sixth grade, a couple of years ago, while classmates were writing poems that described themselves as lovers of "girls, baseball, ice cream...and MTV," Vili wrote that he was a "Lover of giving, faith, trust... Who likes to wear masks over his soul." He was just...
...Vili pretended to be asleep. But the officers questioned him and learned his age. He had just turned 13. Even as Mary tried to explain herself--there was a fight with my husband; we were just sleeping; I often watch Vili--they were concerned enough to call in a sergeant. After all, Mary was clad in a coat and T shirt but "was bare-legged below the T shirt," Tschida wrote in a report. The sergeant who arrived later reported that she was wearing a beige skirt. Regardless of this, it didn't look good, and Vili told the Globe...