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...case, a woman in Gautier, Miss., called the police on Dec. 4, 2002, when she noticed two Doberman pinschers, one dead and the other emaciated, in a pen in her neighbor's yard. The case went to court the next month, and the dogs' owner, a junior high school teacher, was found guilty of animal cruelty and fined $1,000. Thanks to a rescue group, the surviving Doberman was nursed back to health and placed in a new home. Once weighing less than 30 lbs. and barely able to stand, the dog is now a healthy 67 lbs. She even...
...telling that to Bolds-Jackson, a teacher's aide who sees her future in football. After finishing a lecture on blocking stance ("Your head should be looking forward ... Squat!"), she stands in an empty changing area, vowing that her goal is a high school coaching job--and a championship. "I want one of those rings on my finger," she says, "and I'm going to keep coaching until...
DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential--so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...
...Visual and Environmental Studies department, certainly seems to be the little darling of Harvard’s arts community. The word on the street among VES students is that he’s both an extremely accomplished (did I mention famous?) practitioner in his own right and an excellent teacher; he’s the guy everyone wants to study with. And the buzz among the faculty seems to be equally positive, at least if the casual comments made by other professors to their students—not to mention the smug looks and smiling faces of the faculty members...
...reputation alone would have been sufficient—one need only flip through back issues of Artforum to see that Prina is widely respected by the critical establishment, and every one of his current students with whom I have spoken so far calls him a truly excellent teacher...