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...child who fell a martyr. How sad is his mother? I am proud of him. He was from my region. He was killed on his way back home. What is the use of what he had learned? He was killed. Did he know that he should not prepare his homework because a bullet would kill him? It is an evil bullet fired by a wicked soldier. I gazed at our teacher. I am one of her best students. But now I do not care about the lesson. Study is no longer important in our life...
...that classes have started and he has experienced a few weeks of homework, Ashwin says he is ready to try more activities--like rock climbing...
Often coaches assign homework to be done between calls. If someone is having trouble managing finances, he might be asked to keep a diary of expenses. If a salesperson is seeking to improve performance, she might have to make a set number of cold calls that week. Burned-out overachievers may be advised to "get a massage or lie in a hammock for an hour," reports Lynn Nodland, a coach in Excelsior, Minn...
...divorced in 1977) says music was always around his house as a child, and he started going out on the road with his father when he was "maybe three or four." He took guitar lessons when he was 12 ("I hated it. I couldn't conceive of doing music homework"), and after high school he spent about three months at Parsons School of Design in New York City before dropping out and devoting himself to music. In 1992 his band, the Wallflowers, released its self-titled debut. It was a critical and commercial flop. "I thought [40,000 copies sold...
...focus has shifted to the kids--and assumed laser-like intensity. "There's been a ratcheting up of expectations about what parents owe their children," says Williams. "The fear is that you have to spend a lot of time with the lessons, the tutors and helping them do their homework or they won't succeed." Observes Martha Bullen, co-author of Staying Home: "A lot of these women were used to more programmed lives in the workplace, and they bring this to their home." Notes Peggy Orenstein, author of Flux, a book based on interviews with women across the country...