Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing in Blake's place at No. 1, Doran dominated his opponent with a large serve and screaming shots from the base line. While many others were finishing up their first sets, Doran was walking off the court with...
...former state supreme court justice, Archer is known for long deliberation before he acts. Not much studying was required here: only half of Detroit's high school students graduate, most basic supplies--from textbooks to toilet paper--somehow have trouble making it into schools, and teachers routinely walk out on strike. While Archer has succeeded in reducing crime and luring Big Business since taking over as mayor in 1994, he says the city's decades-long flight of middle-class residents can't be reversed unless the city's schools get better. "Any mayor in the country will tell...
...first thought upon seeing the cover was that Gates seemed to be saying, "I may be getting my a%$ kicked in federal court, but I can still get my 'I'm good people' mug shot on the cover of TIME, because I'm money!" Still, it was an interesting book excerpt. TONY TOVAR San Diego...
KENNETH KAUNDA President of Zambia for 27 years, but court says he's not a citizen. Then someone tries to kill...
...pits them against some of the professors they work for, who warn that collective bargaining will defile teacher-student relationships. Such high-minded claims are undercut by campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions." For activists and apolitical students...