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...name means "patience" in Turkish (her mom studied in Turkey in college). "Sometimes it was hell, but I enjoy challenges!" Fifty pupils have been made welcome at the center, where they learn to read and write Tibetan, Chinese and English, and also receive vocational training. But their most important lesson is self-reliance. "We want to show the kids that they don't have to be ashamed of their handicap. We want them to stand up and say: 'I am blind, not stupid!'" she says. Tenberken has a typically straightforward explanation for her extraordinary drive: "Some people have more energy...
...weeks after the start of term. A computer system responsible for allocating teachers to their posts had left a third of the country's 150,000 teachers not assigned to schools. The company that holds the lucrative computer contract, Compta, said it "rejects all responsibility" for the crisis - a lesson in corporate accountability kids can learn without even stepping in the classroom...
...feeling proud of myself for making this shopping trip by myself, excited to start blending in more when I walk through town. And then the shopkeeper says, “you know how to wear?” Uh…good point. So we do a quick lesson. As she starts to wrap the belt around my waist, all of a sudden the breath is yanked out of me! I gasp as she jerks the belt tighter, revealing muscles that I hadn’t thought possible, given her small frame. I mean, what are the odds...
Unlike Penn, Princeton was lucky enough not to have to learn the lesson the hard way. Tiger kicker Derek Javarone missed field-goals of 31 and 35 yards in the first half, before finally nailing a 27 yarder in the third quarter. In the interest of full disclosure, it’s important to add that San Diego’s kicker John Koker missed one of his two attempts, but it doesn’t look so bad when the miss comes from 45 yards out and the make from...
...final lesson we can glean from the fall of Constantinople is that Western failure to react decisively to emerging threats can have consequences far more serious than any would have predicted. This is a particularly salient lesson for our time, as the threats we face are not yet massive enough to draw our undivided attention. While the Turks were still raiding the Anatolian steppe, few, if any, Europeans would ever have guessed that not only would they eventually conquer the “Second Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they...