Word: meekness
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...held liable for failing to help students like Anita Rutnam. A key issue is whether school administrations are expected to act in loco parentis. Unlike a parent-child relationship, "there is no special relationship between university officials and a student that imposes duty (to protect students)," contends Jerry Meek, a Dallas-based malpractice lawyer. Without proving that such a duty to students exists, it will be difficult for any plaintiff to claim successfully that it was breached...
...years Keith Bearden, 33, had given up on his family, including his elder brother Dean, 38. Their parents' divorce cleaved the family into separate camps, and Keith wanted no part of either one. "I was really angry," he says. He also felt that he, a self-described "meek intellectual," had nothing in common with his tattooed, motorcycle-riding, machinist brother. Then Dean started telephoning a couple of years ago, just to see how Keith was doing. Keith, to his surprise, was happy to get the calls. Dean says he had no particular plan, that he had never even thought about...
...Williams 5. Round Midnight - Thelonious by Thelonious (most particularly the solo piano version) 6. He's a Quiet Guy - Supposedly by Phil Spector with Poncia/Andreoli Phil probably had nothing to do with it; performed by Darlene Love on the B side of "Stumble and Fall" 7. Telstar - Joe Meek (performed by the Tornados in Meek's production) 8. Stroll On - Sort of by the Yardbirds (plagiarized from Johnny Burnett and His Rock and Roll Trio's "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; the Yardbirds' performance in Antonioni's "Blow Up" is the one that changed the course of human events) 9. Cherry...
...online information for doctors. Directions to the half-finished office are scrawled on sheets of paper taped to the elevator bank. The conference room is also the bottled-water room. The CEO shares his office."I took a salary cut last week because of the funding situation," boasts Erin Meek, a former consultant. "But it doesn't bother me because of the experience I'm getting...
...indeed work on Showgirls, not only took pictures of the numerous--and surprisingly attractive--women he slept with in the 1970s but persuaded them to let him print their pictures in a book being published this week (Consafos Press; 120 pages; $32.95). This guy makes Charlie Sheen look meek...