Word: learned
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Speaking to the faculty, alumni and student group before the signature presentation, Professor of the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn said, "Those who govern Harvard should take their responsibility seriously. They ought not repress the voice of those who teach and learn here...
Kelly said she began to learn students' names when she worked in Lowell. "It just comes naturally," she said. "I start with last names, and then in a couple of weeks I have their first names down...
...only has Bush recruited a top-flight campaign staff, but he also has, as he put it in an interview last week, "learned that you don't get bogged down in a lot of details or run the campaign yourself." Bush's new take-no-guff political persona is, of course, one of the major surprises of the campaign. Bush's stiff but improving podium personality can be viewed as an ability to learn from earlier mistakes and to patiently absorb the coaching of others...
Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day, he often notes, after the death of Galileo -- to parents who were Oxford graduates. As a small boy, he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart -- a way of "finding out how the world around me worked." But he confesses that he was never very good at putting things back together. When he was twelve, he recalls wryly, "one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this...
Carl Icahn juggles Texaco, TWA and USX. -- Hypermarkets have it all -- at a discount. -- Can an elephant learn to dance...