Word: teach
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...there's a shift in the landscape, we realize we have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider context of risk management, among other topics...
...what the media would talk about in two days, he replied, "Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive." The media have dutifully fact-checked the McCain campaign's mischaracterizations of Obama's tax plans and its howler that Obama wants to teach kindergartners about sex. But the Obama camp has often seemed flat-footed in the face of nonbeanbag politics, as if it didn't think it had to dignify Republican smears with a response. "Obama wants the campaign to be about issues, because he wins on issues," says a Democratic consultant...
...Instructors] come to me; they say, ‘I cannot teach so many people, there are people standing outside the door, you cannot teach a language course like this,’” he added...
...China Studies Professor William C. Kirby, who will co-teach Historical Study A-13: “China: Traditions and Transformations” this semester with colleague Peter K. Bol, was reluctant to ascribe attendance at his class—students filled the aisles at the first meeting—to this summer’s international sporting spectacle. But Kirby did not shy away from the subject while teaching—opening the class with 20 minutes of clips from the Olympics’ opening ceremonies...
...something to keep in mind now that the Thomas Friedmans and Arianna Huffingtons of the world are imploring Obama to get angry, to shed his above-the-fray cool and fight back against the McCain campaign's silly-season accusations that he's a charismatic chauvinist who wants to teach kindergartners how to have sex. Over the past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - attacks...