Word: defaulting
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...there are boarding-school staples like family-style meals at round tables, school-wide meetings, blue blazers and khaki pants. There's also the rather revolutionary belief that the classroom should be an intimate place that fosters discussion and critical thinking rather than rote memorization, which is the default teaching method in much of the region. But more important is the school's effort to create an environment where learning takes place outside the classroom - through athletics, community service, honor codes and an expectation that students become leaders in everyday life. The school also plans to bring a new diversity...
...nevertheless places her under a perpetual spotlight. Every aspect of her life is fair game for scrutiny, from fashion faux pas to comments about female scientists to the car she drives. How a person chooses to travel can say a lot about her, but Harvard provides a default mode of transportation. Along with an official residence, the University offers its commander in chief a black Lincoln town car, which once sported a license plate reading “1636.” “The Corporation provided in hiring me as president that the university car would drive...
...this fall. When he returned to campus, he was surprised and a little wounded when his swipe card was canceled, preventing him from getting into storage and to extracurricular meetings within Houses. Harvard policy allows all students who move off campus retain their swipe access. Pearlman says that the default appears to be that students must request to have their access maintained...
...audience needed a rooting interest, and because Clint was so damn cool, he established the new mode: hero by default. The good guy was the one with the fastest gun, the meanest scowl and top billing. And that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character...
...Sept. 17 that it would guarantee all deposits held with Northern Rock. "I want to put the matter beyond doubt," announced Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, putting British taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars of Northern Rock deposits in the (extremely unlikely) event it did default. Users' cash squirreled away at the bank, he said, "will be guaranteed safe and secure...