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Nicholas Waxman

By Nicholas Waxman
Community contribution / March 16, 2018

For some people their line of work would seem to be inevitable, whether that be a meteorologist named Field Storm, a butcher called Brad Slaughter, a lawyer named Sue Yoo, or a US Republican candidate called Rich White.

Names can be powerful too – in 1958 Robert Lane named his two sons ‘Winner’ and ‘Loser’ and in a ...

This story appeared in the March 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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