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...China's history has been the story of the rise and decline of successive dynasties. Since the 1900s, Chinese historians have strenuously attacked this traditional way of looking at history as violating any claims in China to development and progress. They feel that such an idea lies behind the concept of "an unchanging China," which has been so damaging to foreign assessments of China's development. Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying instead. Nonetheless dynasties have...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy, teacher of "Literature and Arts C-14: The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," an ardent supporter of pre-registration for Core classes, says that trying to train his TFs after the course has begun can often end up "shortchanging both the teacher and the student...
...Both of these points miss a fun- damental theme, that ethnic studies is trying to understand the concept of race and ethnicity," she said...
...grader into the hallway with two other first-years. The grader asked that we rotate in answering the questions. Halfway through the test, we reached a problem concerning the notion of the prisoner's dilemma. The fellow to my right explained that his section had not yet covered that concept. The grader accepted this excuse and began to move on to the next question. The third member of our group abruptly interjected...
Like Java, which knocked around Sun for years before it emerged to transform the computer industry, the hypnotizer and VWPC have their share of detractors. One of them is Hank Menzinger, the hapless president of La Honda, who dismisses the VWPC as unworthy until the concept catches on, and then steps forward to claim credit. He sounds a lot like Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technology officer, who thought the Web was such a waste of time he once threatened to charge employees $50 apiece for their Web browsers, but in the end took credit for Java...