Word: homework
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stop turning down dinner invitations from my brother and sister-in-law with the transparent excuse that they're rerunning my favorite episode of Walker, Texas Ranger that night" and "stop silently exulting or actually chortling when another parent tells me that his daughter had enormous difficulty with a homework assignment that my daughter found ridiculously easy...
Unlike the avuncular caricature of his later years who left his hair unshorn, helped little girls with their math homework and was a soft touch for almost any worthy cause, Einstein is emerging from these documents as a man whose unsettled private life contrasts sharply with his serene contemplation of the universe. He could be alternately warmhearted and cold; a doting father, yet aloof; an understanding, if difficult, mate, but also an egregious flirt. "Deeply and passionately [concerned] with the fate of every stranger," wrote his friend and biographer Philipp Frank, he "immediately withdrew into his shell" when relations became...
Patti Nielson, a teacher, had seen Harris and Klebold coming and ran a few steps ahead of them into the library. One kid was doing his math homework on a calculator; another was filling out a college application; another was reading an article in PEOPLE about Brooke Shields' breakup with Andre Agassi. "Get down!" Nielson screamed. She dialed 911 and dropped the phone when the two gunmen came in. And so the police have a tape of everything that happened next...
...changed a lot. With big capital letters. When I came to Harvard, I was very young. I had never dated anyone in high school and I didn't kiss anyone until I came to college. Like all the people who did their homework in high school, I didn't have a social circle in my immediate environment....As cliched as it may sound, I think I have really come into my own here and do what I am interested in. People do something here because they like it. Like, 'I really enjoy this.' I did opera when I came...
...smart, man, you're on," Mr. Arribas said to each student individually, as they filed past him to hand in their homework. The encouragement brought a smile to each student's face...