Word: mold
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...students who care deeply about the subject matter and will stay after to ask their teacher for another book?" Both Kinnally and Williams College's Parker bemoan the fact that so many college applicants are "packaged" and pushed by their parents. "Parents are trying to mold their children in ways that would please us," says Parker, "rather than recognizing passions or strong commitments in their children and then encouraging the heck out of those...
Koocher explained that Speakers of the Househave historically been more centrist than thelegislature, balancing out the House's radicalelements. Finneran has not altered from the mold,especially in his conservative financial policies...
Also from the Stauffer-Bowes collection--and developed during Harvard hockey games--are any chants sung to the tune of Camptown Races. One example, popular when facing Yale, is: "Blue's the color of mold on cheese...
DIED. MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, 86, consummate political wife and, briefly, a U.S. Senator; in Minneapolis, Minn. When Hubert H. Humphrey launched his political career in 1945, Brown campaigned next to him. She broke the spouse-as-campaign-prop mold during Humphrey's three bids for President and his term as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking out on such issues as the rights of the mentally disabled...
...other for the middle. Bordonaro, 30, having run in the 1996 G.O.P. primary as a Newt Gingrich acolyte, now soft-pedals her personal antiabortion stand and her opposition to gun control. Wu, 43, who immigrated from Taiwan when he was seven, has styled himself in Clinton's New Democrat mold, stressing fiscal discipline. Both candidates say education is their top priority...