Word: handing
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Some of my peers, on the other hand, won't need Daddy come graduation. Erudite, accomplished and exceptional, these girl geniuses and boy wonders out-read Will Hunting, out-calculate Rainman and out-fly E.T. They're the best and the brightest of the best and the brightest. The crme de la crme of the cream of the crop. The smartest students at Harvard. Or something like that...
...Their effect will be tempered by the fact that there is an anonymous vote," said Krishnan N. Subrahmanian '03, a council member. "On the other hand, [student groups' presence] could make people realize that this is an actual person we're dealing with, as opposed to just rhetoric...
Professors teaching together is a nice concept. Students benefit from watching great minds duke it out over contemporary and academic issues, often hearing first-hand the opposing positions of an academic debate. According to the Chair of the Economics Department, Professor Jeffrey Williamson, co-taught classes actually encourage professors to perfect their teaching styles. Williamson said that junior faculty especially benefit from co-teaching courses with senior faculty members...
Team-teaching can be the best of all possible worlds. It can in fact encourage teachers not to "slack-off" for fear that their colleagues will be there watching. There is little opportunity to come unprepared to lecture when a professor knows peers will be on hand to observe...
...sympathetic toward people condemned by history to live under the Taliban, he's wary of turning Britain into the destination of choice for the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. He'll find it hard to show leniency toward those who used knives, guns and hand grenades to reroute an airliner. After all, the very premise of the global fight against terrorism is that the ends don't justify the means...