Word: job
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success of Saving Private Ryan, Hanks turns in yet another Oscar bid with his believable portrayal of the everyman, Paul Edgecomb. The model of fairness and discipline, Edgecomb is the ideal man to be charged with one of society's toughest responsibilities. As the caretaker of doomed criminals, his job requires him to grapple with death and justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom, doubled over...
...want to continue working and studying," Alberto said. "It would be really boring to stay at this job. I want to seguir (advance)." He has vague notions of what he might be doing in 10 years. "I'd like to have a place in a school," he replied. "Not as a teacher, I don't know if I have that ability, but maybe recruiting students, or motivating them, or giving them advice. Something in a school, though...
...think they are doing a good job reaching out to students with mixed backgrounds whose parents may not have even gone to college," she says...
...feels the school could do a better job integrating the minorities with the rest of the school...
...probably important to define what I mean by intellectuals. I mean people who have a tendency to answer questions with questions and to think not inside or outside the box as much as about the box itself. The intellectual may not get the recruiting job or the place in the U.S. Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then...