Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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* You are not giving up your career. I'll confess my own snobbery about teaching. Like most Harvard students, I consider teaching the noblest profession, and honestly, some days I still consider myself somewhat above it. Six hour days spent diagramming sentences with boring ten-year-olds--this is what...
"It's all in direct discourse, a play in a play already," observed Fagles. When ancient Greek rhapsodes performed dramatic recitals of epic poems from memory as their profession, the epic each time would be "performed by one person in a variety of voices." Presumably, such a virtuoso story teller...
"Bill represented the best the legal profession had to offer," said University attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., who opposed Homans in the case.
Although Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 contends in an e-mail that "No particular profession or calling led to the structure of [Harvard's] curriculum," all of the above qualifications could have been read verbatim from the course catalog. Coincidence? Think not.
MOSCOW, Russia: New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, meet your equal. Responding to a traffic altercation three weeks ago in which diplomats from Russia and Belarus claim to have been battered by New York police, powerful Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov recently oversaw a special operation, code-named "Foreigner," in which city...