Word: teacher
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Carlson, a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, said the biggest obstacle to victory is that the has been away from home for four years. He spent two-and-a-half years at Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, and a year as an elementary school teacher in New York before coming to Cambridge...
...think it is important to look at history...My wife is a history teacher," Ahtisaari said with a smile...
Like most people my age, I remember the moment well. It was January, 1986, and I was in third grade. My teacher, Mr. Cohen, had been summoned into the hall; seconds later, he returned to make a pronouncement to the class: "Something terrible has happened...
...India in 1992. "It felt logical to me," he explains. "Real, not hokey." He spends anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours a day in cross-legged contemplation. Back braced against the wall--a flaw in technique, he'll admit--he repeats short prayers, in English, assigned by his teacher. He prefers not to share their content, other than that they have to do with having "no interest in self except for where it can benefit other beings." He waxes genuinely enthusiastic about becoming "more aware of what I do now and how it affects other people...
...shed light on a world that is to him only a picture-book fantasy. "For example, where is Paris, France? And what is a Molotov cocktail? And who is Jack the Ripper?" The Dalai Lama becomes the most avid student of a man who never knew he was a teacher. And Heinrich, who has been renounced by the son he never met, sees in the Dalai Lama a boy so beautiful and curious he could be any wandering father's perfect child. But it is now 1949, and the Chinese communists have plans to abort this theocratic fairy tale. Tibet...