Word: expression
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Another day, Nguyen spent time teaching the students how to express their feelings. She started with the basic “happy” and “sad,” but then also threw in “confused.” She says that although she spent 15 minutes on it and got really frustrated, all her students could muster was “confu-.” Later that week, in a moment Nguyen calls a “highlight,” her student Tony was banging on a desk during a lesson. When asked...
...with a living will, an adult can precisely outline what they want to be done if they lose the ability to express their wishes. A health care proxy assigns control over the adult to a particular individual...
...European Union (E.U.) summit just after Mohamad’s now infamous comments, President Chirac prevented the body from including a denunciation of the Malaysian Prime Minister’s speech in a statement released by the E.U. Chirac insisted that the summit was not the appropriate place to express his condemnation of Mahathir’s insidious words. That begs the question, then, of what an “appropriate” venue to denounce racism would be. Surely one would have thought that a meeting of the world’s great liberal democracies—nations committed...
...innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following the maxim of that great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes and much of the rest on decorations and doodads. Don't get me started on outfits...
...more student friendly atmosphere than currently enjoyed. Mass. Ave. north of the Law School harkens to images of Harvard Square in its pre-corporate atmosphere, presenting students with a number of eclectic shops, low-price eateries such as Boca Grande and Half-Shell, several small groceries and a Hollywood Express; all within a five- to- six-minute walk from the Quad. Further north, but still within easy walking distance, Porter Square offers up the closest Anna’s Taqueria, a much less crowded Pizzeria Uno’s, Blockbuster, TAGS hardware store, Star Market, several bars, a liquor store...