Word: teacher
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...very unfortunate that this is their first exposure to government," says Melicent Rothschild, a seventh-grade humanities teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. "This generation is seeing a kind of politics characterized by meanness and the absence of privacy. It's difficult for me to teach students to respect the office of the President...
...State of the Union address, a slight, ponytailed man named Andrew Bleiler, 32, stood with his wife in front of their home in Portland, Ore., and confessed to a five-year affair with Lewinsky. He said it started when she was 19 and he was a stage-production teacher at Beverly Hills High, that he tried to end the entanglement in 1993 after both had moved to Oregon, but that Lewinsky threatened to tell his wife Kathlyn. And so the affair lasted until last April. The Bleilers' lawyer, Terry Giles, said that after moving to Washington, Lewinsky sent the couple...
...scheduled a cover story on that boring old speech. Teachers appreciate this kind of civics lesson. Then, cautiously, we framed a "Presidential Problems" sidebar. Question No. 1: How to describe the President's alleged liaison? We decided to say the married President was accused of having a "girlfriend"--a word as innocent or suggestive as a child makes it out to be. Words we wanted to avoid: adultery, affair and, of course, sex. Who knows how long it would take a teacher to regain control of giggling fourth-graders after that three-letter bomb exploded in class...
...David won't stray. An old teacher said, "If you stuck a girl or a ball in front of David, he'd pick up the ball...
...Paul Gray's article about Toni Morrison and her new novel Paradise [BOOKS, Jan. 19]. Few writers of the modern age have been as masterly, as powerful in the use of the language as she is. But Gray left out an important aspect of Morrison: her role as a teacher. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an inspirational force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations. She is accessible to students and committed to seeing us search within ourselves to find our passion and communicate that passion...