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According to Wallach, the group was asked to perform with the seeminglydissimilar Harvard musical group, the Din & Tonics, because watching two successive a capella group performances can become tiring. “We were invited to perform after the Din & Tonics in order to mix things up a bit,” he offers...
While Cosby did not attend the afternoon proceedings, he did perform a forty-minute comedy routine at the evening dinner party. Speaking in his famously slow and contemplative drawl, Cosby played to the crowd, riffing on the medical profession, his fear of vaccinations, and the hilarious perils...
According to Wallach, the group was asked to perform with the seeminglydissimilar Harvard musical group, the Din & Tonics, because watching two successive a capella group performances can become tiring. “We were invited to perform after the Din & Tonics in order to mix things up a bit,” he offers...
...training requires them to be. Throw in all the suspicions born of class and race and personal experience, a culture that praises teachers freely but pays them poorly, a generation taught to question authority and a political climate that argues for holding schools ever more accountable for how kids perform, and it is a miracle that parents and teachers get along as well as they do. "There's more parent involvement that's good--and bad," notes Kirk Daddow, a 38-year veteran who teaches Advanced Placement history in Ames, Iowa. "The good kind is the 'Make yourself known...
...real issue is that the child is getting a poor grade; who seek out a doctor who will proclaim their child "exceptionally bright but with a learning difference" that requires extra time for testing; who insist that their child take five Advanced Placement classes, play three varsity sports, perform in the school orchestra and be in student government--and then complain that kids are stressed out because the school doesn't do enough to prevent scheduling conflicts. Teachers just shake their heads as they see parents so obsessed with getting their child into a good college that they...