Word: horowitz
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...this fall the NFL brought veteran high school coach Jerry Horowitz to the city to teach Football 101 to 33 females, a group that included cops, teachers and stay-at-home mothers. After 16 hours of training, the women ran 12 practices for 12- to 15-year-old boys and a few girls taking part in the league's Junior Player Development program...
...When I first heard this idea, I honestly thought it was a joke," says Horowitz, who coached New York City high school football for more than 25 years. "But then I saw how seriously some of these women have approached this. Coaching and teaching are the same thing, and some of the best teachers in the country are women. They're an untapped resource...
Students and administrations are often too quick to stifle ideas with which they disagree rather than having a meaningful dialogue. One would only have to look as far as UC Berkeley’s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able...
...pianists both possess awesome technical mastery, but their approaches to the repertoire are quite different: Lang is a young Chinese Horowitz, pounding the keyboard with bravura intensity, whereas Li is a lucid interpreter with a poetic sensitivity, reminiscent of Artur Schnabel or Rudolf Serkin. After their respective debuts in America last year, the critics responded with the kind of ecstatic raves not seen in a long time. Richard Dyer, a critic at the Boston Globe, declared that Li "has the talent, the looks and the personal charisma to be a standard-bearer for a new generation." Following his recital...
...temptation to switch into planning overdrive is natural for expats with a passion for their host country. Steven Horowitz, an advertising executive who has lived in Japan for five years, says he begins flipping through his "mental Rolodex" of must-see restaurants and attractions whenever relatives are planning to visit. But for those hosting first-time visitors, he has two pieces of advice: "Keep it simple," and "Maps, maps, maps!" Ideally, there should not just be maps but a homemade travel pack with a phone card or rental cell phone, plus a list of emergency numbers and translations...