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Facing the Enemy. Most typically, the TA handles sections of 15 to 30 students in introductory courses. He lectures, answers questions, conducts lab sessions, grades the students. He is supervised by a professor, who usually also delivers mass lectures in the course. The TA rarely gets much formal instruction in teaching. "You just walk in and face the enemy," says Cal TA Roberto Bernardo, 27. For the TA, who may be only a few years older than his students, teaching at a major university is heady stuff and valuable experience. "When we get to talking about our classes," says Michigan...
Fitzgerald, after a number of visiting professorships at other institutions, came to Harvard this year. Last fall he taught English Ta, an advanced course in composition, and Comp Lit 201, Studies in Narrative Poetry. This semester he is teaching English Tb and English 283, a course in versification...
Predictably, Israel's decision also touched off demonstrations all over the Arab world. In Baghdad, 10,000 Iraqis stormed Bonn's embassy and set it afire, and 4,000 Yemenis gave the embassy in Ta'iz the same treatment. In Lebanon, there were riots in seven towns, one injuring 23 students and police. Only tough police action protected German embassies in Syria, Egypt and the Sudan from angry mobs...
...Incas called their empire ta-huantinsuyu - the land of the four quar ters - with at least one good reason...
...ta, hats off to thee...