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...second period with a reverse, O’Connor took a 5-2 lead that he would not relinquish. As Pami made a number of charges through the second and third frames, O’Connor held strong to capture the title. The senior slowly removed his headgear with wide eyes after the referee raised his hand...
...professor now. How do your students react to your past? So far, so good. Most of my students are writers, and they can see my book from a literary standpoint and appreciate it as a literary work. Sure, I walk into class to very wide eyes sometimes, but I am very forthright with my students and clear about my belief that you cannot attach a specific value to any kind of experience. Especially as a writer. Anything that challenges me, that makes me see the world in a more generous, nuanced way, is valuable - necessary, even, as an artist...
...overwhelming majority of the more than 40,000 public-school teachers in a wide-ranging survey reported that too many students leave high school ill-equipped. The Gates Foundation--funded study suggests that clear standards, student performance evaluations and teacher assessments are among the keys to improvement. Only 45% of teachers said that higher salaries--often touted as a panacea--are "absolutely essential" to retaining good instructors. Some 68%, however, cited quality leadership...
...Mississippi and the Deep South, which, he said, "might be wretched, but it can howl." Many have chronicled this past, but none have captured its psyche as Barry did. He wrote and lived his life in the same way he led the post-Faulkner literary renaissance in Oxford--wide open and fearlessly, the same way that Civil War cavalrymen rode into battle, hurling an expression that Barry often employed when signing books for friends: "Sabers...
...noted the problem as a "Campus-wide Partial Network Interruption" as of 8 a.m. (meaning that lots of other people all over campus can't connect to the Internet either), and their staff are "actively investigating the problem...