Word: problems
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...says the Chinese already use television "a fair amount in day care centers and the early grades." Lesser adds that the Chinese Ministry of Education has "great difficulty preparing enough teachers and sees television as one possibility" for alleviating the problem...
...Harvard, while a large proportion of women are on administrative and professional staffs, women still do not fill the highest positions, e.g., vice presidents and full deans. In the faculty, women occupy junior positions. At Harvard, where there is no tenure track system for any junior faculty members, the problem for women is compounded. For, the issue can be avoided by raising affirmative action statistics by hiring women as members of the junior faculty, keeping them here only temporarily. This strategy has resulted in a 17 per cent differential between the number of women that are members of the junior...
...between the desire to win and the need to conform to Harvard admissions standards is often uneasy. Although coaches respect the academic goals of the office of admissions, many express frustration that arises not from stringent standards, but from other constraints. Joe Restic, Crimson football coach, says the biggest problem he faces is the relative unattractivenesss of Harvard's financial aid package...
Restic pointedly says, however, that there are no easy solutions. "I don't think you're going to solve the problem in the Ivies. As a coach, you have to deal with that reality...
...PROBLEM, OF COURSE, is not merely that these in-jokes are only funny to law students, even though the advertisements yelped, "You don't have to be a law student to enjoy it!" (which the little lawyers call misrepresentation). The problem is that this is not humor at all. It might be called the humor of recognition, a humor that plays upon collective anxieties of a tribe like the Law School by depending on the mere mention of names associated with the collective experience. There is nothing intrinsically funny about "LSAT scores," "Langdell receptionist," or "Roberto Unger." These things make...