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...need instruction in English, math or history, but they also want personal advice and encouragement. Kids talk with me about their families, their weekend plans, their favorite TV shows and their relationship problems. In my English and journalism classes, we talk about Shakespeare and persuasive essays, but we also discuss college basketball, the war in Iraq and career choices. Students show me pictures of the prom, their rebuilt cars, their family vacations, and their newborn baby brothers. This personal connection is the vital link between teacher and student that no amount of technology can improve upon or replace...
...color the film: “I was looking for mistakes to improve the script,” he explains. The climax of a month-long Streep celebration, Streep joined fellow actors John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, and director Robert Altman after a preview screening of the film, to discuss both the craft and the award, which honors original and challenging film making.“This award is really celebrating not so much me as what a small art theater, independent (means), and that creature has to be preserved,” she says, under the restored Art Deco...
...Council expressed strong support for international experiences, some doubted whether transcripts were the proper place to offer recognition, Mendelsohn said. “There was a question whether things which are not academic ought to show up on a transcript,” Mendelsohn said. The Council did not discuss the upcoming search for a replacement for Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who will step down June 30. —Staff writer Allison A. Frost can be reached at afrost@fas.harvard.edu...
...advisory committee appears set to work in secrecy, and all of its members yesterday either declined to discuss the dean search or did not return phone calls and e-mails requesting comment...
Both Haddock and Benjamin G. Lee, the Graduate Student Council president, said that undergraduates and graduates would be meeting with Bok to discuss the qualities the next dean should have and to submit names of possible candidates...