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...Kids Aren't All Right As a high school english teacher of at-risk students in an urban school, I have seen firsthand how sexuality is exploding [Sept. 22]. First of all, we need to have an honest conversation about protection. Also, girls don't have sex or get pregnant on their own. We need to start promoting male role models who don?t just use women and leave. We need to start teaching our boys to treat females and their own children with more respect. For both girls and boys: Use condoms every time. Don't have sex just...
...high school english teacher of at-risk students in an urban school, I have seen firsthand how sexuality is exploding [Sept. 22]. First of all, we need to have an honest conversation about protection. Also, girls don't have sex or get pregnant on their own. We need to start promoting male role models who don't just use women and leave. We need to start teaching our boys to treat females and their own children with more respect. For both girls and boys: Use condoms every time. Don't have sex just to fit in. And babies...
...seats of an HBS classroom,” Bernstein told participants. “You’re used to hearing teachers who have complete control. That’s about to change.” Over the course of the week, participants experienced the case-study method firsthand by reading examples written by HBS professors and discussing the cases during 90-minute sessions. Professor Rohit Deshpande led a discussion about a marketing battle in the world of imported beer. Students discussed how Grupo Modelo, which produces Corona, should compete with market-leader Heineken. Other discussions touched on private equity...
...they say, it's not the crime but the cover-up that could be most damaging. Wooten is not a highly sympathetic character - something Palin knows firsthand - and the public could perhaps understand why Palin wouldn't want him carrying a gun around. But Monegan is the one who lost his job. And by initially denying that there was any pressure, only to reveal that most of her senior staff, her husband and the attorney general had in fact been pressuring Monegan, Palin did far more damage to her carefully cultivated maverick image that is working so well...
...sure have knocked on these doors, countless times," former state senator Jay O'Brien says of the approximately once-a-month gathering. "I've been out here since 1991." (O'Brien knows the importance of new voters firsthand: he lost his state senate seat last year, when a surge of new voters came out of nowhere in his Fairfax district. "Frankly, I got as many votes as I used to get, but there was a bigger turnout by new voters who wanted to make a statement about other things, and they were more energized by a Democrat," O'Brien says...