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Given the frequency of student complaints that professors don’t interact enough with students, the first lectures of shopping period—before the grind of getting through the material—provide that rare glimpse into professors as humans. In talking more informally about course expectations, going through the syllabus and setting up expectations, faculty naturally reveal far more about themselves as people than they will in the average lecture halfway through the semester. Students’ academic experience improves when they realize that the bespectacled figure lecturing to them is, remarkably enough, human...
When they do manage to get a word in, the two highlight just what’s missing from the daily grind of undergraduate dining: joy. These people are unabashedly, deliriously, downright nerdily in love with food and wine. Just listen to Steve Edmunds talk about grapes. For this man, a visit to the vineyard is apparently tantamount to spiritual pilgrimage...
...proposed amendments to require a balanced budget, permit prayer in public schools and ban flag burning have never made it out of Congress. The Equal Rights Amendment, which was meant to invalidate state and federal laws that discriminate against women, did emerge from Washington, only to grind to a halt in state legislatures in a process that took 10 years...
...It’s a simple job for us,” Turano said. “We try to get it in the zone and grind it out there. Whatever chances we get are a plus...
Life in Baghdad seems a lot like life anywhere—complicated, difficult, often mundane and very real. Familiar social realities persist even in a war zone. The life of the average soldier is very much a blue-collar grind. These men and women work long, hard hours, earn low pay and eat, sleep, joke, flirt and live like most Americans...