Word: tutoring
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...questioned the reason she gave for leaving. When a person says she wants to give up a powerful job to spend more time with her family, it is usually a laugh line. Few do so voluntarily, but Hughes' explanation rang true for reporters who had watched her try to tutor her son Robert, now 15, in algebra on the campaign plane or had tracked her down by cell phone in the bleachers at one of his baseball games. It was clear that the former Army brat was never comfortable with having hauled her family to Washington. When Condoleezza Rice woke...
...drug once,” said Hist & Lit tutor Evan F. Bennett ’98 to Gary A. Mohammed ’03 during a highly uncomfortable one-on-one tutorial last Wednesday intended to discuss Mohammed’s junior paper, “but I won’t touch crack. Because once you do crack, you’re a crackhead.” After a 4/20 celebration that went bizarrely awry on Saturday, Bennett is now a crackhead...
Trowbridge, who graduated from Georgetown and received an MBA from Yale, is now the resident business tutor in Winthrop. His wife, Shannon Trowbridge, is the resident government tutor and is currently working towards a doctorate in government. Because he works from their apartment, Trowbridge spends extensive time in the House, he boasts weirdly. His current office “normally would be a bedroom,” he says...
...challenge for Trowbridge has been convincing investors of this potential. He spent last year commuting between L.A. and Cambridge. This year, he decided to spend more time in Cambridge and work from home. “Now, I’m here more than any tutor,” he says. “I get up in the morning and get online. It’s been good.” And customers don’t know—or care—that he runs his business from what should be a Winthrop House bedroom...
...department, administrators say it is unclear why women undergraduates are particularly attracted to their discipline. One possible cause could be the more “woman-friendly culture” in their department that differs sharply from the atmosphere in hard sciences such as chemistry or physics, says head tutor Stephanie H. Kenen...