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...will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable mind. When Hoffman’s Japanese teacher eventually commits suicide, he next recalls a woman from the Association of Soldiers’ Mothers who drowned while crossing the Jordan. By specifying that fish devoured them both, he illuminates the link between them. Mortality does not leave Hoffmann’s mind for long, but the myriad ways...
...regularly attracted an average enrollment of 800 students in a year, according to Donald R. Cutler, Cox’s agent. “He is a big deal,” Cutler said. “He has always been an enormously inventive and perceptive teacher,” said Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Studies, a speaker at the celebration. “But he has never abandoned...his spirit of festivity.” Legend has it that the Hollis Professor of Divinity holds the privileged right to graze his cows?...
...keep doing it? The reason why I got any work done was because I'm on television. If I were a public school teacher like my sister Joyce, doing the Lord's work - unlike me, who's telling dick jokes for a living - I wouldn't have gotten anything done. But I have to. The next time you turn on your TV, think about the fact that 90% of the women have had some form of what I call "dental work." That's my new code...
...wasn't always thus. Letizia's status as a commoner, as well as her previous marriage to school teacher Alonso Guerrero, offended some of the old guard in Spain. And the hothouse world of the fashion and celebrity press has criticized her for changing her hairstyle too often, speculated on whether the pressures of the palace have driven her to anorexia, and weighed in cattily when news broke that the princess had submitted to rhinoplasty in order, in the palace's version, "to correct a breathing problem." (Thankfully, everyone seems to agree these days that the surgery has flatteringly softened...
...remember grappling with similar questions as an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C. Three days into the new school year, Sept. 11 occurred, ending school before it could begin. We asked ourselves, What would we tell the kids when they come back? How do we explain ourselves? We found that the answers lay in the ordinary - and the kids were learning the lessons even before we taught them. Teachers acknowledged what had happened, then carried on with the school year as soon as possible. The kids were ahead of the adults. (See pictures of Iranian society...