Word: instruct
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According to Fitzsimmons, there are now guide books that instruct students on how to get noticed in the application process, which is often viewed as impersonal...
There's really no reason to get agitated about Britney's generic music or dreadful new film. Her primary function is not musical or cinematic but educational: to instruct girls in the complex lessons of peer envy and to get 12-year-old boys on the fast track to concupiscence. Similarly, Crossroads, whose $10 million budget was put up by Spears' label, is less a movie than a multimedia branding, an extension of the Britney franchise--a marketing tool, exactly like the singer's Pepsi spots, though without their craft, verve or production values...
...from its inadequate level. All Harvard teaching fellows should be required to pass a course on how to lead a Harvard undergraduate section—such as those currently offered on a volunteer basis at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning—before being allowed to instruct students. If this were enforced, TFs would actually have classroom teaching experience under their belts, rather than being recruited the day before class starts...
...Harvard. We are faced with the opportunity to finally cure a disease that has attacked our University’s system for far too long. The right cure would strike at the root of the problem—not just its current symptoms. Only a sadistic doctor would instruct his tuberculosis patient to stop antibiotic treatment as soon as the disease’s symptoms have subsided. Partial treatment of tuberculosis allows for much more virulent, life-threatening strains to emerge years later. Likewise, a solution that reduces the symptoms of today’s crisis without providing a genuine...
...idea is spreading. Last year more than 100 former circumcisers from across Africa grouped together and agreed to put down their knives and razor blades for good. Now they instruct rural women on health and childbirth. "We teach [the circumcisers] a trade that responds to their economic needs," Gambian Fatou Waggeh, an anti-FGM campaigner who was circumcised at 15 and is now 32, told a Rome conference in March. "[We] recognize that we must provide them with alternatives for training and [keeping their] power within the community...