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...here to read, to study and to learn. But we are also here to meet people, to try new activities and to pursue our passions. Grad students, too, are pursuing their passions. Unfortunately for you, however, their passions include memorizing the books carried by The Coop's textbook division under the label "Recommended Reading." You just cannot compete...
...degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time we do or do not cast a vote; we are still making a political statement every time we purchase a product made by Nabisco or Nike...
Most notably, she is the co-author of Health Skills for Wellness, a school textbook, the first ever to devote a full chapter to violence prevention...
...Rudolph was in his early teens. Teresa Morgan, 28, who attended school with the Rudolph kids, described them as "very well mannered. Everything was 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, sir.'" Rudolph, she recalls, was so bright and attentive in class that he could pass exams "without ever reading a textbook." He harbored "very extreme views" but was quiet and something of a loner. When other kids would go to a local lake to picnic and swim with family or friends, they would see him there by himself...
...female hockey players and an Indian luger. Now and then, perhaps, a few niceties got lost in translation ("Oh, we beseech you. Heave-ho, heave-ho," was one of the first lines to greet spectators on the scoreboard), but for the most part the ceremonies so conformed to the textbook that even their "image director" was a man whose first name is Man. Elegiacally minded Japanese may have been calling these the last Games of the 20th century, but the efflorescence of young faces suggested they are really the first of the 21st...