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It has happened to virtually every undergraduate looking for an easy core, interesting elective, or fun foreign language course. You placed your trust in Foreign Cultures (insert number) only to find yourself betrayed, jaded, bested by the Q Guide. Or maybe you simply ignored the numerical rating—a...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Kiss That Class Goodbye | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

As most veterans of the U.S. public-school system can attest, many students enrolled in traditional math and English courses spend each period praying for the bell to ring. Extending the school day and year without implementing significant curricular changes would only intensify this painful academic experience, possibly leading to...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Intra-Curricular | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

Many a jaded commentator saw Obama's Tuesday meeting with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as a symbol of surrender to Netanyahu's refusal of the U.S. demand that Israel halt all construction on land conquered in 1967. Instead, Netanyahu offered a partial and time-limited freeze and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Netanyahu Best Obama in Mideast-Peace Tussle? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

No one in the nation's capital is naive enough to think that President Barack Obama's address before Congress Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, was somehow, in one fell swoop, going to overcome all the opposition to health-care reform, the power of his rhetoric winning over skeptics like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Obama's Speech, It's Back to Wooing the Skeptics | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

It's curious, the number of people who bemoan Hong Kong's independent-music scene. Critics (and expats in town for brief, superficial sojourns) adopt a default posture of digit-pointing, waving jaded index fingers at a concert calendar crammed with Cantopop and mainstream international acts. But even the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Underground | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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