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Each state has its own credentialing system and may have scores of certifications in different subjects. Many promising teachers give up in the face of numerous and sometimes baffling license requirements. Says the University of Missouri's Michael Podgursky: "I don't know of any other profession that has such...
"Those of him who consider him a friend have enjoyed his honesty, integrity, compassion and hard work, not on behalf of Harvard alone but on behalf of the academic profession," he said.
Yet as much as Sprewell is a magnetic athlete, he is also the personification of the new NBA hoopster: talented, vehement, hardworking and nonchalant (and, 8 times out of 10, African American). Today's player is a man who sees his profession much as a stockbroker might see his own...
Tatjana Breloh was a statistical rarity in Germany: a woman who had climbed to the top of her profession as managing director of Euro RSCG, a Dusseldorf ad agency. But in June 1997, Breloh, now 44, was fired. Her dismissal came a week after she received a $25,000 bonus...
"My colleagues in the profession are amazed and delighted to hear of a choir that sings daily services in the U.S.--that's usually thought of as an English tradition," writes Somerville, who was born in London and studied at Oxford.