Word: basic
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...difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis—but that’s precisely the problem. We’re only expected to parrot back the basic arguments and corresponding authors that have been drummed into our heads during lectures. Doing the reading isn’t even necessary to ace midterms; omnipresent “study groups” give students a concise summary of authors and their ideas to sprinkle throughout an essay. I have...
...students are our basic reason for being in business at all. We who teach at Harvard have the privilege of a captive audience of eager, bright and intellectually engaged customers, and while we shouldn’t pander to their every fleeting taste, we do have a responsibility to give them a menu that is varied, nourishing and delicious. Our faculty egos can handle a little squeezing and sniffing, if that is the cost of just a little bit of the competition which in every other marketplace is held to improve quality. If we leave our customers with the deep...
Moulton’s mother, Lynn Moulton, said that her son spent the summer after graduation at home in Marblehead, Mass. before entering Officer Candidate School—partly in order to avoid undergoing basic training in the summer heat and partly in order to convince his parents that joining the Marines was a good idea...
...hoped to topple the tyrant, restore basic services and then quickly transfer power to a government led by Iraqi exiles cultivated in Western capitals. Instead, it has quickly become clear that Washington will be forced to shoulder the bulk of the political, economic and, particularly, military burden of a long-term occupation. The political and military uncertainty on the ground has indefinitely postponed the transfer of power to an Iraqi interim government, much to the chagrin of the previously exiled groups that had been working with Washington. And whereas the Pentagon had hoped to begin withdrawing many of the approximately...
...plan to elect a 35-member consultative body to advise him on political decisions, and have threatened to hold their national assembly in defiance of his edicts. But managing the competing claims of rival Iraqi groups amid mounting tension, fighting the Baathist holdouts while working to restore security and basic services are now part of the administration's daily agenda in Iraq...