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...easy enough to be snide and not recognize steps that the University has taken in recent years to improve our undergraduate experiences. The Danforth Center--created to train section leaders and help professors plan courses--has grown in budget and size in the past few years. The center offers orientation for teaching fellows at the beginning of each semester and various teaching workshops throughout the year. Teaching fellows and professors can be videotaped and can review the tapes with the center's trained staff...
...many professors make no effort to find out if students are learning anything from their classes. The distinction between classes with competent, well-trained section leaders and classes with poor teaching is too obvious. Why can't all of our classes be good instead of just a tiny fraction...
Nastase again pointed to his mid-section. "It's the stomach," he said...
...Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report that demonstrates that at least in early 1987 he was able to recall that profits from Iran arms sales were used to buy weapons for the contras, he professed surprise. "This is the first time I have ever seen that...
...equally prickly issue is the so-called Super 301 dispute between the two countries. Within the next few months U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills must decide whether to impose sanctions against Japan under Section 301 of the U.S. trade law, adopted in 1988 to give Washington more leverage in prying concessions out of countries with allegedly unfair trade practices. Last May Japan was specifically cited for restricting sales of forest products, satellites and supercomputers. Tokyo claims that Super 301 sanctions violate international rules governing fair trade, and declines to negotiate the substance of the disputes under the threat of such...