Word: ta
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...going to be pretty for school administrators. The schools, you see, are going to be held accountable. That's right, year after year you've turned our bright-eyed tots into slack-jawed, gun-toting illiterates. But no more! Y'hear that, schools? We're comin' ta getcha! And after our aircraft have bombed your dens of ignorance into smoldering craters...
...silence risks spreading disillusionment. Khatami's impatient, enraptured young supporters greet him with chants of "Kha-ta-mi! Kha-ta-mi! Doostet darim [We love you]!" This is a nation desperate for change, starving for leadership. And Khatami's difficult task is to rework Iran's system from within. It's an excruciatingly difficult way to be a reformer, fighting battles by not fighting battles. The pressures are exacting a toll. Chest pains sent him to the hospital recently. He winds down each night by scratching out a few pages of his memoir--in ink--at home. Khatami...
...that everything is perfect, but we have it far better than TA's at many other institutions," says Adam P. Fagen, former president...
Last year, a Yale protest to a TA strike resulted in an NLRB decision not to allow Yale graduate students to bargain collectively...
Yale, which keeps an extensive collection of documents related to TA unionization on the web site of their public affairs office, argues that to recognize grad students rights to collective bargaining would undermine the purpose of graduate education...