Word: midterm
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After a disastrous midterm election season for their party, Sen. John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) announcement this week that he will toss his hat into the 2004 presidential ring has given Harvard Democrats reason to celebrate...
...math or physics problem, and professors are unable to prove cheating when students have duplicate answers. But this was not true in the case of Jennie C. Lin ’03. When Lin was a first-year, someone in an organic chemistry course copied her work during a midterm. Her creatively incorrect answers immediately gave the cheater away. Lin recounts the story of the professor calling her one morning and thanking her for her ineptitude. “He told me that if I had answered everything correctly there’s no way he would have ever known...
With the iconic leader back vowing high-level terrorism, Americans are left to wonder why the No. 1 target of the war's original manhunt is still at large. Democrats, pummeled by Bush during the midterm elections for being soft on terrorism, saw a chance for payback. "We can't find bin Laden. We haven't made real progress in finding key elements of al-Qaeda," said soon to be Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. "They continue to be as great a threat today as they were one and a half years ago. So by what measure can we claim...
First, an example. I was sitting in section a few weeks ago, reviewing for a midterm, jotting down with the rest of my class the terms we would be expected to know. Be sure to talk about X and Y, cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading...
First, an example. I was sitting in section a few weeks ago, reviewing for a midterm, jotting down with the rest of my class the terms we would be expected to know. Be sure to talk about X and Y, cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading...