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Murray’s gesture, while clearly well intentioned, makes him look desperate for an audience, as though it were the students doing him a favor in attending his lecture. This unfortunate approach compromises the essential teacher-student dynamic. If teachers feel indebted to their students for attending lecture, then students will feel a complementary sense of entitlement. Yet, let’s all put education in perspective: students pay to attain knowledge that is priceless in and of itself. This is the only financial incentive that should compel students to attend lectures...
DIED. VINCENT SCHIAVELLI, 57, ubiquitous, droopy-eyed actor who appeared in minor-but-unforgettable roles in some 150 film and TV productions; of lung cancer; in Sicily, Italy. Among the amateur chef's memorable parts: a subway apparition in Ghost, a clueless teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Frederickson, an asylum inmate, in the Oscar-winning 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...away on that afternoon of Aug. 29, as Hurricane Katrina sent up 30-ft. storm surges, Jones, 53, knew a flood was raging in from the Bay of Biloxi because the water was rising rapidly in the storm drain on his street. But what worried the high school history teacher more was the debris clogging a larger storm drain nearby, part of a network designed to draw off flooding from Biloxi's coastal areas. If the drains didn't function, Jones knew, then inland neighborhoods like his would be violently deluged. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...elsewhere washed up on the tide. He ministered to the dead for a week, then started on recovery. He coordinated aid groups, distributed self-written pamphlets on the science of tsunamis, set up patrols to stop looters and opened a nursery, a students' dormitory, a nutrition center and a teacher-training facility. He even held a kite-flying contest to encourage children to return to the beach. "What didn't he do?" asks police inspector Thushara Sena, 32. "He pulled people out, buried the dead ones and fed the live ones. He was the man people went to for everything...
They had not raised their son to be ungenerous. Mary had worked as a teacher until her children were born. Then, as a mother of three, she served on the boards of several charitable organizations in Seattle. She was the first woman to chair the board of United Way International. After she was appointed to the University of Washington board of regents, she led a successful movement to divest the school's investments in South Africa. Bill Gates Sr., a prosperous lawyer, was also active in United Way and the University of Washington...