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...While Korsgaard acknowledged that it is difficult to avoid compromising ethical standards, she said that individual action was an important step forward, pointing out that “delicious cuisines for vegetarians are available.” The panel also said that change could begin in the classroom. “If I were a Harvard student today, I would seriously consider taking up ethics and animals as an area of study, independent research, or thesis,” said Patricia Herzog, a former professor at Brandeis University. The discussion was intended to present a critical look at how humans...
...experience - the men spent three years in the Gulag - seemed not to dampen a rebellious streak that showed early in his life. Yeltsin recounted several occasions on which he was disciplined in school for fighting or for organizing pranks, once persuading all the students in his classroom to climb out a window and run away from a teacher they disliked. Another time, he and a fellow student broke into an army storage area and stole a hand grenade. It exploded while he attempted to disassemble it, resulting in the loss of the thumb and forefinger of his left hand...
...that can make dining with Sundquist a somewhat drawn-out experience.After an 8:00 a.m. meeting of the student-faculty Committee on House Life and a couple of hours spent e-mailing and attending class—a luxury, considering he didn’t set foot into a classroom during the three weeks of the presidential campaign—Sundquist proffers his ID at the entrance to Annenberg Hall. From there, the count is on. Over an hour-long meal, five minutes seldom pass without Sundquist being recognized and engaged in conversation.According to Troy C. Murrell...
...their first class of the day, when Cho peered in, as though he was looking for someone. One student thought he looked like a Boy Scout. He was wearing the school color--a maroon cap--and a vest with pockets for his ammunition. When he went back into the classroom, he was quiet and purposeful. First he shot instructor Jamie Bishop, 35, in the head. Then he went methodically around the room. Derek O'Dell was hit in the arm; when Cho finally left for the next room, O'Dell and two other students moved to block the classroom door...
...developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough yet terrifically brief 200-page overview. If only more classroom text writers would take a page out of Norton’s book...