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...rather than chanting slogans demonizing Harvard, the protestors were striking against Yale’s labor policies, and as the article would have it, Harvard was a paradise for workers in comparison. Citing Harvard’s generous benefits and salaries, the article chided Yale for its poor treatment of staff and urged it to emulate its archrival. Unlike Harvard, which lets its workers take courses at the Extension School for a pittance, the piece said Yale “views workers who try to take classes with its distinguished faculty as workers who don’t know their...
...Chris is very generous in the sense that during the editing process, we're talking and he says, "Come by, look at some stuff...
...make them part of ourselves, share in—rather than simply know about—their particular passions. It seems somehow a loss that part of the cost of growing up, of becoming a more complete human being, should be that we become more discrete, less impressionable, less generous individuals—that in the pursuit of our best selves, we should be liable of discovering our worst...
...lives of people - narcs, druglords, ghetto mothers - who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced and abandoned," he says. Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers...
...guaranteed to graduate in four years, but they should be guaranteed the opportunity to attain mastery, no matter how long it takes. In the end, helping students to mastery is infinitely preferable to passing them on unqualified to certain failure because in our misguided sympathy, we see it as generous to exempt them from the kind of stakes in education that life routinely imposes on them. They don’t need waivers or exemptions or protection. They need the chance to learn...