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...plan to go to college? - Lindsay Carpenter, Milwaukee No, I don't. I am continuing my education. I have two weekly tutorials with a friend of mine who is also an English teacher. He comes on set and we talk through plays and books and poems. It's a privilege...
...With most parents (except for Draco's mother and the Weasleys) absent from the action, the Hogwarts teachers are the guardians of youth. They're not all suited to the job; some are foolish, some sinister. The new teacher, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), runs a salon for his pet students. An incorrigible name-dropper, he "collects" children whose talent or connections might bring him glory. The resentful Snape (Alan Rickman, effortlessly oily), whose motives have been murky but whom Dumbledore continues to trust, becomes Draco's surrogate dad: snake for snake...
Isabelle Jackson Elementary • fifth grade students at are surprised - "Dad, is that Ms. Defanti?" - when souvenir DVD supposedly containing school-year memories turns out to show teacher at engaging...
...antidiscretion case has been made for years with regard to Federal Reserve monetary policy. Becker's Chicago teacher Milton Friedman thought that instead of tweaking interest rates, the Fed should just automatically increase the money supply 3% to 4% a year. Measuring the money supply in an era of financial innovation has turned out to be awfully hard, so in recent years believers in an automated Fed have turned to an equation concocted by Stanford economist John Taylor that takes in inflation, current economic growth and long-term-trend growth and churns out a suggested Fed interest-rate target. Taylor...
BEIJING, China — Like everything else in life, heat is great, in moderation. At Bethel Foster Home in rural Beijing, where I am volunteering as a piano teacher and resident translator for blind or visually impaired orphans, it was 41 degrees Celcius today. That’s 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for you Americans. Hotter than body temperature, way into fever, and way, way past moderation. Let me describe some simple ways that heat manifests itself...