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...invited me to join them. I decided that the opportunity for professional growth was better there than I thought it would be doing what I was doing so I took a deep breath and left. And I'm very glad I did. I missed teaching, but I used to construct opportunities for teaching along...
...really identifies how race is a social construct and not biological," she said...
...page to page, just how this improbable hero will perform his role, not only for the nervous intelligence officers monitoring his every move but for the readers as well. With scarcely an intimation of sex, no violence and not a side arm visible, Le Carre has again managed to construct a plot of commanding suspense. Never before has he so successfully merged his narrative and contemplative gifts. The Russia House is both afire and thought provoking, a thriller that demands a second reading as a treatise on our times...
...such report was connected to a recent bill that would have added ten years to the sentence for any crime committed with a firearm. It estimated that if the law were passed, so many new convicts would be sentenced to longer terms that it would cost $63.5 million to construct and operate the required prison facilities. A committee of the legislature tabled the bill...
...real reason is to get us together and construct fake memories of the great time we've had here so we'll feel obligated to give Harvard our money. First in installments, then the balance when we kick. Unfortunately, the first event was such a miserable failure, I figure the Alumni/Alumnae Associations owe me about $20 at this point. Make it out to cash, please. It's for a good cause...