Word: pupil
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...perhaps still do. What you get for your 8 pounds is a walk through the main formal rooms: the Throne Room, the Picture Gallery, the Green, Blue and White drawing rooms, the best of which were designed by George IV's architect John Nash, and the worst by his pupil, Edward Blore. "Blore the bore," as he came to be known, took over the decoration of Buckingham Palace after Nash was dismissed by George IV's successor, William IV, for his "inexcusable irregularity and great negligence." Blore was a beacon of probity, but not of talent. His lack...
...night of wild sex with a former pupil (and, boy, does she teach him a thing or two!). She recharges an old romance with a fabulously wealthy financier. She eludes the entire Nassau County police department. And, oh, yes, she catches the killer. Isaacs' heroines are never the usual trophy wives (she can't make a silk purse out of a Coach bag); instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor...
...report recently released by a Cambridge public action group blasted the quality of the Cambridge public school system, saying that the high per-pupil spending in the system is straining the funding available while student performance declines...
...tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...biggest sparks for any relationship can come from shared interests. Isn't it logical that such commonality could be found between an instructor who teaches a particular course and a pupil with enthusiasm for the subject matter? Yet Harvard and other schools would prohibit teacher-student relationships from progressing outside the academic realm...