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...distressed to read of the demise of the House of Representatives' summer internship program. As an intern last summer with Rep. George Bush (R-Texas), I consider the experience to have been one of the best I have ever had in learning the process of government first-hand, and I regret others will be deprived of this opportunity...
...want to learn about educational administration as well as make recommendations for vocational training. They spend a lot of time arguing about organizational needs and procedural timetables. The more theoretically inclined students are still trying to define "vocational education," while the more practically minded men just want to see first-hand a wide variety of job training programs...
Look at more recruitment advertisements, study more literature from more companies. See more companies first-hand. You may be pleasantly surprised...
...intended to be? Can one remain unaffected by the knowledge of the systematic slaughter of five million Jews under Hitler? The title of the First Quarto of 1600 and the Second Quarto of 1619 runs, in part: "The most excellent Histories of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle...
...David Gottlieb, the Assistant Director of the Job Corps at the Office of Economic Opportunity, calls his course the Sociology of Adolescence. The topic is popular with Soc Rellies at winter Harvard, and the man ought to have a first-hand knowledge of his subject...