Word: citings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights of homosexuals--you know, you can't lose your job or your home because you're gay, that kind of thing. They misrepresented it as special treatment, and put it about that gay people have a hidden agenda (like the Protocols of the Elder Zion that anti-Semites cite) to destroy the American family. They--we, I mean--are sinful, immoral, sick. The Christian Coalition had Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 come out from Harvard, Veritas glittering from his escutcheon, to testify in support of their crusade, and they...
...asked if there were any patrons who were obviously unsafe. Kevin's reply was rather oblique and less than reassuring, "Well, you can be absolutely sure that if they own their own gun, they can't have served time in prison or been in a mental institution." He did cite one case of a man who was thrown out for continuing to shoot as employees were walking down range. Kevin explained that, in a sort of bastardized backcountry biathlon, customers can shoot at bowling pins on Tuesday nights. Machine gun use is discouraged...
...study at Columbia University's Teachers College looked at the lives of 100 prominent Americans, ages 40 to 55, and found that those who had come from disadvantaged backgrounds were especially likely to cite the influence of a mentor as a key to their success. Sometimes a caring teacher served "as a parent substitute," says Charles Harrington, who co-directed the study. Sometimes the teacher provided an affirming "turnaround moment," for example, by standing up for a child and saying, "Henry wouldn't lie." That moment of validation, he notes, "transforms Henry...
Gardner is right about that. Still, many neurologists and psychologists believe recent discoveries in brain science--the localization of particular traits, the proliferation and pruning of synapses--are far too poorly understood to guide educators. Meanwhile, students of cognition, even those who give Gardner much credit, cite research that contradicts him. "The different intelligences show correlations in many cases, and within intelligence, there is a lack of unity," said Robert Sternberg, a professor of psychology and education at Yale. In other words, some of Gardner's intelligences do not seem to be independent faculties, while other intelligences divide up into...
This group defends its choices on a variety of non-monetary grounds. They cite a challenging work environment, bright peers, the opportunity for advancement based on merit and a steep learning curve. They complain that the public sector is often the opposite: slow, inefficient and full of people who are unambitious and overly bureaucratic. They see career options like teaching and non-profit work as insufficiently influential and somehow less "professional...