Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been instrumental in rejuvenating one of Harvard's important biological assets," Knoll said. "He has also done great service as a teacher and has contributed to the general intellectual climate...
...some in Syria, peace will come none too soon. One day recently, a teacher named Naim Khalil, 38, piled his wife and kids into the car and drove out to a dusty hillside west of Damascus. He looked past some barbed-wire fences and a minefield at some cousins standing on another ridge in the family village of Majdal Shams, under Israeli army control for 32 years. Holding up a battery-powered megaphone, he yelled out greetings and asked for the latest news. "I've been doing this since I was a boy," Khalil explains. "This is how I told...
...looked at weaving from the outside, in terms of design. Pearl's class taught her how to weave her beliefs into her work and become part of her own creation. "It was different from any weaving I have ever done before," she says. Pearl has an unofficial teacher's aide: Taos itself. Students, who arrange their own lodging, absorb the rugged mountain landscape, the strong pure light, the rich blend of Native American and European cultures and incorporate them into what one student calls "blankets of love." Folks shouldn't feel intimidated by Pearl's body-and-soul approach...
...student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some freak," she told the newspaper. "I have been a good teacher, but my best days are ahead...
...teacher--who now dresses in floral skirts, paints her nails pink and wears her hair shoulder-length--hoped to cushion the shock with her explanations. "My transformation should not be traumatic for students," she says. "But it is a tragic lesson if I am burned at the stake for who I really am." Now teachers are pitted against administrators, and children against parents. Some colleagues pooled to buy Rivers a $50 gift certificate from a dress shop, but others are "tired of the Dana Rivers Show," says art teacher Marc Allaman. Still, Allaman defends Rivers' "First Amendment right to answer...