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...According to the website, 39 Harvard affiliates have signed the petition, including Professor of Law Janet Halley. She wrote in an e-mail yesterday that NYU “should not change such substantial parts of the academic culture to cram down the union...
PICTURE CARDS Flash cards may help students cram for the SAT, but experts agree that the cards are inappropriate for babies younger than...
...Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. Mark Knoller of CBS News, who meticulously logs presidential movements, says that since taking office, Bush has spoken at 184 events that raised more than $505 million. But given that a new request to campaign with him arrives daily--and that Bill Clinton managed to cram in 203 fund raisers in his last 13 months in office--the current fund raiser in chief will no doubt keep hauling in the lucre...
...safety net, single midterms with smaller tests would actually be more effective educational tools than the single (giant) or dual midterm. Smaller tests will help students better retain information since they’ll be evaluated on a smaller range of topics, and will feel less compelled to cram half a semester of knowledge into their heads all at once. Most importantly, these tests will be dispersed sufficiently throughout the semester, perhaps even with a few in September and December, so that we only have to contend with one grueling period of concentrated tests in October and November. Ultimately...
...lengths Libby and his colleagues were willing to go to squelch any criticism of the Administration's prewar behavior. Libby was a Vulcan,* one of the Bush team hard-liners, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who helped the President cram for foreign policy debates during the 2000 campaign and who had argued for years that the U.S. should depose Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and bring democracy and stability to the Middle East...