Jaques
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Tirzah and 13-year-old Jaques “Jake” Patterson recently opened up about coping with immense grief after a mass shooting, an unceasing story across the nation.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023
In his Times Opinion newsletter, Peter Coy examines the midlife crisis, a term coined by Elliott Jaques, a Canadian psychoanalyst, in 1965.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2022
The main innovation, Jaques says, was rewarding the system for getting humans to respond, “which is not that crazy from a technical perspective, but very important from a research-direction perspective.”
From Science Magazine • Sep. 18, 2022
“The line we’ve adopted has really torn up our image abroad,” said Jaques Wagner, president of the senate environmental committee and a member of the Brazilian delegation in Glasgow, Scotland.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
The glasses were drained and filled again, and Mrs. Jaques turned to her hosts with a cordial smile.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
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