Word: teacher
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...Failure is a great teacher--Mike really learned from his mistakes," Allison says. Dukakis learned through developing the Kennedy School's state and local programs, through teaching courses on the role of the elected official, and through informal consultations with K-School faculty...
Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised Dukakis on nuclear power and the Seabrook, N.H. power plant, says that Dukakis "never did campaign from the Kennedy School." Instead, "just like any teacher, he learned a lot from teaching," he says. Dukakis won the support of Bay State voters in the next gubernatorial election...
THERE WAS ONCE a time when being a writing teacher fell under the old aphorism that "Those who can't do, teach." Nowadays, however, the grim economics of the writer's trade make it almost essential that even successful authors and poets find a steady supplement to their royalties. The majority of America's best authors make at least a portion of their livelihood from teaching writing at universities, fulfilling the literary pretensions of the young while adding a little sparkle to dry English departments...
...Cohens do not see their presence in Gilgal as a political statement. "Life is healthier here," says Ami, chunky and round faced, with a bush of dark curly hair. "In the city, we fought a war for money month after month," adds blond, Paris-born Chantal, a nursery school teacher. "This place is exciting. We're building, and we feel equal...
Many of the Tukanos remain allies of the church. At the summit meeting one Indian teacher, Brasilino Borges Barreto, proclaimed that "it was the missions that gave us this level of knowledge." Said another, Getulio Bruno: "Our civilization began on May 23, 1923." That was the day on which the Salesian missionaries came to his tribe...