Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were enough hints that something was wrong. Two students had argued in class about the exact wording of questions on a final exam-even before the exam was handed out. Another student had complained to his professor that he could not have made a mistake on some math problems on a test because an accounting major had worked out the answers for him in advance. But now the cheating scandal at the University of Florida is out in the open, and the campus is in a furor...
...Leisinger, a boyish, crew-cut math teacher at Boston State College, is organizing this expedition. It is learned that a couple of thousand have gathered in Southie to greet the buses and Leisinger says, "We're not out to fight, but we're not pacifists, either. You don't fight racism because it's a moral issue, but because it's a life and death issue." He is a very nice guy. He's very friendly and talkative, though he doesn't say that the Progressive Labor Party is behind CAR. By 12:50, the affair is over, and Jeff...
Forbidden Theme. Solzhenitsyn's memoirs begin in 1961, when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues...
...small one-story house which is Midden on the bay side of Route just before the Wellfleet. Truro town-line. Rising building costs have prevented them from buying a larger home, a move they have wanted to make for their two children. So late last fall. David, who teaches math in a public high school, applied for jobs in western Massachusetts. Their plans fell through, however, and with the economy in its present shape he cannot afford to give up his present job and hunt...
...continues, "the Arabs must change their attitudes about Israel. We want them to demilitarize the Sinai in return for our withdrawal. But even more important would be the deletion from Egyptian schoolbooks of those passages that call for the destruction of Israel. They should take out the parts in math books that ask. 'If you murdered three Israelis this morning, and murdered four Israelis in the afternoon, how many Israelis did you kill today...