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...grades so that my parents or the school didn’t bother me, and I skated every morning and night. Sometimes I came to school with a pelvis knocked out of alignment. I never really hung out with anybody, but I ran for student council president on a whim and won. Then the person who was in charge told me that they were giving it to another guy who would show up for the meetings. I couldn’t argue with him.11.FM: You started skateboarding after seeing “Back to the Future...
Both campaigns have acknowledged that neither can win without the support of superdelegates, those 795 Democratic Party leaders granted floating votes that they may pledge or switch at a whim. But if the most inexperienced members of Congress are intimidated by the gravity of the situation, they're certainly not showing it. Despite being wooed heavily by both the Obama and Clinton camps, nearly half of the 40 House members and six of the eight Senators are still undecided. Some may still be holding out for promises, some are just slow in the deliberative process and some have made...
...might proffer.Of course, the process of education does not and should not terminate with the receipt of the sheepskin on commencement; certainly, even the most experienced of professors gain from hearing the insights of their most talented students. But to carry this logic to its extreme, and install the whim of students as the arbiter of course instruction, is manifestly imprudent.The perspective that puts students and masters on the same intellectual plane distorts the proper order of education.Traditionally the purpose of university is to maintain and pass on intact to rising generations the vast treasury of knowledge that our civilization...
...living in digital art and gaming. "Having Lucasfilm here really legitimizes the field as a career choice for Asians," Ho says. Not all of Lucasfilm's talent in Singapore is homegrown. Canadian Kalene Dunsmoor, 27, was designing motorcycle decals in Toronto when she sent her portfolio on a whim to a Lucasfilm recruiter. Now she works in Singapore, collaborating with Lucas' iconic special-effects shop Industrial Light & Magic to add computer-generated imagery to films including the Harry Potter and Indiana Jones series. "They were willing to take a chance even though I didn't have conventional experience," Dunsmoor says...
...rule, she took the hospital to court for discrimination. Jean-Pierre Burnier, the hospital's chief administrator, defends the decision to suspend her. "[Under laïcité], public services like hospitals have a responsibility to respect [religious] neutrality," he says. "This wasn't just a boss's whim." Two years on, the tribunal's decision is pending, and Kaddouri works as a doctor in other hospitals, wearing a hijab...