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...playing soccer instead of basketball. Keeping in touch with his father was more difficult. “Dad was still in Sierra Leone, and I began to play scrabble as a way to remind me him”, Edgar explains. “When the bombing started, he taught me to play and ever since then scrabble has been a really important link between me and my dad?...
Five hundred ninety-nine students are enrolled in the class, far more than two years ago, when West last taught the course. The number places Lowell Lecture Hall about 150 persons over capacity...
Later in the morning, he also made a surprise appearance at the popular “Af-Am 10” class taught by Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Jackson took the microphone and lectured to the students for about 15 minutes...
...most chilling detail of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut is that in his last seconds the suicide bomber was smiling. Bassamat al-farah, it is called. The smile of joy. Suicide bombers are taught that they are guaranteed immediate admission to paradise, where 72 black-eyed virgins await their pleasure...
...write and not why to write. The conclusion even explains her seeming abandonment of her theories on writing for the criticism of other works declaring that “I have learned that you cannot teach people how to write…all that is inborn, cannot be taught-but you can teach people how to read, how to develop judgment about a piece of writing: their own as well as that of others.” That idea is what separates Gornick’s book from the myriad of texts for would be writers and allows...