Word: professionalisms
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Why do you think so many in your profession support Democrats over Republicans? -Roy Emery from Canberra, Australia
“The ideal profession for playing bridge is unemployed,” said Zeckhauser, who claimed that despite his success, he could easily imagine a life without bridge. “It’s a terrific hobby, but if the doctor told me I could never play...
Hans Tutschku is an artist who defies classification. Although his first profession is composing, this associate professor of music and director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition has experimented with performance art, sound installation, video art, and theater design. Tutschku has incorporated all of these disciplines into a...
...stalled while they spend months in Swedish-language classes. The government has made attendance in language classes a precondition for receiving asylum benefits. Then comes the slog of requalifying in their profession. While Iraqis in Stockholm praise the Swedes' welcome, they struggle to persuade locals to hire them for professional jobs. "We have a lot of highly educated people driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg late...
...employ them,” Marx said, adding that the Farmer, who spends more of his time abroad with PIH than he does in Cambridge, plays an active role in training these employees. Kleinman said Farmer’s commitment to combining medicine and public service predated his professional work. “When Paul was a sophomore at Duke, he wrote to me and basically said, ‘I want to be a medical anthropologist like you,’” said Kleinman, adding that Farmer was a “serious correspondent...