Word: learns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while we learn in 'Tis that his students learned something about similes, metaphors and five-paragraph essays, it seems that McCourt taught them a far more important lesson--that of the strength and resilience of the human spirit. When asked how he "survived poverty," McCourt said that he did it with a sense of humor, storytelling and "the dream that we were going to get out of that lane-- to get to America by hook or by crook...
With this technological incursion, old rules have gone the way of rotary phones, forcing increasing numbers of cell users to learn the etiquette of a phone call on the shuttle--and one in class...
...kind of interested to learn and hear how [Chinese universities] do these things," said Provost Harvey V. Fineberg...
...Chinese presidents are hoping to learn from their American peers...
...companies provide a remedy. Instead of asking questions, curious students can choose to speak with company representatives at the end of the information sessions. The students say this also gives them a chance to learn about the character of a firm. Benjamin A. Rahn '99-'00 says students can overestimate the utility of this person-to-person interaction. "A lot use the opportunity to schmooze and get business cards and think it will help them in the process," says Rahn, who spent last summer as a consulting intern. "I don't think that's particularly useful. What is useful...