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...clear one reason many teachers loathe this part of the job is that they're not ready for it. Sydney University encourages role-playing by students, who take turns posing as parents, but this isn't the norm. Dosed up on theory, graduates are "unprepared for the real environment," says Brownlee. Confronted suddenly by parents, "they feel defensive and don't want to hear questions." Unfortunately, parents tend not to make allowances for callow teachers. "If someone is new within our walls," says St. Ives?based Howard, "they virtually have to prove themselves to parents. Teacher bashing is one thing...
...United Nations oil-for-food scandal is about to get nastier and more personal. Sources tell TIME that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing...
...still have to rely on the departments to make any real progress toward interdisciplinarity, a method of study that has the potential to greatly enrich American academic culture. If they don’t do anything more than tread water, disciplinarity will be the norm for years to come...
...placed. Long, slow afternoons also offer plenty of chances to bone up on obscure baseball knowledge, such as the identity of the lesser-known member of Cincinnati’s “Nasty Boys” bullpen trio of 1990 that stumped most of the team for hours (Norm Charlton, for those scoring from your dorm room...
...shower, supposedly to shave his body hair. It seemed insane to me that a detainee who had twice tried to kill himself would be allowed to take a razor into the shower. But at this point, things not making sense at the camp was starting to become the norm...