Word: norms
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...Paxman grill President Bush and others in his Administration. Nigel Pond Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. After Apartheid your report on race relations in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid was quite balanced [April 25]. Naturally, racism and racial conflict cannot simply vanish after they have been the norm for so long a time. In any case, humans everywhere engage in conflict over natural diversity. Clannishness and tribalism, for instance, both common in the rest of black Africa as sources of vicious conflict, are the offspring of the same parents as racism. Homo sapiens, the "wise...
...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...