Word: teacher
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Board members seemed largely satisfied with the move, which will allow Acting Education Commissioner David P. Driscoll--thought to be more sympathetic to the state's teacher unions than Silber wanted him to be--to assume his current position permanently. But questions about the future of the Board remain. "It was a necessary step, but it's yet to be proven to end the political divisiveness," said S. Paul Reville, a professor at the Graduate School of Education and chair of the Mass. Education Reform Review Commission...
...buttocks accessorized with thong underwear, while women are attracted to power and money, even when it comes in a chubby, gray-haired middle-aged package. True, there are more cases like ex-Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband than there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they age, it's a bit odd, as zoologist Desmond Morris once noted, that baldness doesn't necessarily activate the female swoon response. It may be smart for women...
...painter doing an Apotheosis of Homer. But Ingres brought it into portraiture, most notoriously with his over-the-top portrait of Napoleon (1806) in his imperial coronation robes, as frontal and opulent as a Byzantine god. So weird was this attempt at deification that even David, Ingres's old teacher, found it "incomprehensible"--and it was so much mocked that the touchy Ingres refused to return to France until other paintings had earned him a better reception there, as they presently...
...region's biggest selling points for the Petersons was the cost of housing. "The rich folks go to the wine country. The ordinary folks come here to the foothills," says Patty, 63, a retired college writing teacher. In this part of California, it is still possible to find a three-bedroom home with a little land for less than...
After a career as coach and a physical-education teacher on Long Island, N.Y., Jack Polo, 61, moved down the East Coast and settled in New Bern, N.C. He and his wife Jane now tie up their sailboat to a dock in their own backyard. More than a dozen public and private golf courses dot the vicinity, and because of the mild Carolina climate, Jack can tee up even in winter. The average temperature of 62.2[degrees] is a boon to gardeners; something is in bloom the year round...