Word: subject
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...months since it was revealed that Radcliffe College's future was up in the air--the subject of secret negotiations between college officials and Harvard brass--Radcliffe classes and programs have gone on as always...
...measure someone's ability to be passionate about their subject area? You don't measure those things in tests," he said...
...genetic errors," she says. The mixing of genetic materials from two persons allows some harmful mutations to be nixed rather than simply replicated without end, as would be the case with asexual reproduction. So could all this lead to the conclusion that sex is divine? Sorry, that's a subject for another study...
Whether the subject is love or alienation, the invention of rich, new literary metaphors is difficult enough. When the subject is race in America, however, it's almost impossible. In his first novel, The Intuitionist (Anchor Books; 255 pages; $19.95), Colson Whitehead has solved the problem, coming up with the freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
...think the best schools do not even try to cover all fronts. Rather than complaining about this, parents should try to make a virtue of necessity. We should bone up on (or remember) the knowledge we value and teach it to our children. Sometimes it will be academic subject matter, but just as often it will be a value or an attitude. Perhaps the greatest gift my mother gave me when I was young was her commitment to sit just behind me each day when I practiced the piano. She said little, though she would occasionally make a comment...