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...know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre in my leggings). 2007 boasts universally unbecoming trends such as huge puff sleeves, mid-calf length skirts, mod-shift dresses and, horror upon horror, cigarette pants.Sometimes, while daydreaming in a particularly horrible lecture about the life of Wordsworth, for example, I fantasize about what designers were thinking when they designed this year’s collections. Did they all think that huge sleeves look good on all women? Did they? It is with this combination of healthy skepticism and vague wonderment (which...
...dizzying array of problem sets, response papers, and midterm examinations, Harvard undergraduates face shopping week woes: which courses to shop, which Core requirements to fulfill, how to balance extracurricular commitments with heavy course loads. And then, of course, there is book shopping. Harvard professors, it seems, have a particular ability for picking expensive and hard-to-find textbooks for their reading lists. Students gripe that many professors require such books that they end up using very little. The Harvard Square-based Coop, in name a cooperative but managed by Barnes and Noble since 1996, has long had a near-monopoly...
...particular, the activists added, Ashkenazi bore responsibility for the torture of thousands of Lebanese civilians at the Khiam prison, the coercion of Lebanese civilians to collaborate with the occupation, and the expulsion of Lebanese civilians from the occupied territory...
Just as students need to be held accountable, so too do teachers. Study after study shows that teachers are crucial to student performance, vastly more important than any other single factor. So if students do particularly well, teachers should be rewarded with higher pay. And, if a particular teacher consistently performs poorly—students regularly lose ground in his or her class—that teacher should be asked to find work elsewhere...
...might say, no teacher should be held accountable just because students did not make expected gains in any particular year. That’s a fair point, but one that can easily be addressed by holding teachers accountable for their performance over the course of two or three years. If every group of students taught by a particular teacher does badly for a span of three years, then something needs to be changed...