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...English Department alone is offering 44 new courses, while the Anthropology Department is offering multitudes more. These are not stodgy courses, either: exciting new offerings include a seminar on the anthropology of knowledge and lecture courses on the literature of California and Asian-American literature. In addition, the English department is adding an introductory three-class sequence in American literature...
...working on a chaw of Nicorette," Goodgame recalls of the then drug czar, "as he struggled--successfully--to overcome his addiction to cigarettes." This week Goodgame, now TIME's Washington bureau chief, profiles the Republican commissar of virtue. Traveling with Bennett, he reports, "is like a very good graduate seminar. When Bill finds something he likes to read, he's like Abe Lincoln, rereading the best parts until he's able to declaim them from memory. He has the same memory for anecdotes, including jokes at his own expense." A rare trait for politicians of any stripe...
When it was offered as a freshman seminar two years ago, hundreds applied. The losers will now have another chance...
Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited North-western University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...
Mansbridge said her seminar, "Representing Gender, Race and Class" will consider "Why we think, as we sometimes do, that women ought to represent women and men should represent men and a member of the middle class should represent the middle class...