Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Cosby not only talked the talk of fatherhood, he walked the walk. Ennis Cosby was not a brat. He was a teacher. Now it's his father who'll have to be one. Bill Cosby has a new role as a model of loss, a paragon of violent bereavement. In Hollywood, privileged, unreal, incredible Hollywood, where imagination transforms reality, reality is taking the upper hand. It's as though the gods of drama have ordained that our entertainers must now act out America's most awful true-life conflicts, no longer just its escapist fantasies...
...think more than anything Ennis was trying to get the basic part done, so his parents wouldn't have too much to say." He made them proud, making the dean's list on graduation from Morehouse. He headed for graduate school in New York City to become a teacher of children with learning disabilities. Says Jasper: "This was not something his parents or his father forced on him. We both got sent to Dean Rusk School, a lower-income-housing school in Atlanta. And when he was there, he was always talking about how he loved working with the kids...
...like him. The way he thought. The way he got over his problem. I thought I could do the same thing. I want to do what he wanted to do--open a school for kids like me. I figure if I put myself to it, I could be a teacher and make it fun." He pauses, in reflection. "Just like Ennis...
...items on Clinton's to-do list: offering health-care coverage to every American child, financing the first two years of college through Hope Scholarships, and extending the Brady Bill to wife beaters and the Family and Medical Leave Law to people who take time off for parent-teacher meetings. Clinton has a good shot at getting these items, since the G.O.P. wants desperately to close the gender gap. But other parts of his agenda--rolling back $15 billion in welfare cuts and passing campaign-finance reform--are less likely...
...have known Margo Seltzer since she was an undergraduate. Already then she was known as a great teacher, only then it was of QRR classes," says McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68, who is also dean of the College...