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...Aside from the sudden screams of pain mentioned earlier, there are countless other obstacles to overcome in trying to stay asleep on a bus. Therefore, piecing together a good night’s sleep over the course of the ride and the following day is a tricky task. And since roughly an eighth of the games played throughout the season fall on the day after a long bus ride, staying well rested is essential. Still, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the marathon bus trips is the way they are inadvertently able to promote camaraderie. At some point the iPod...
...decision to knock off the History 10a requirement. Certainly such a move would please faculty who view teaching Gob 97b—or nearly any course that does not closely align with a particular research interest—as a “service” task. We urge the government department not to submit to this temptation...
...thought. He said he sees himself as helping to maintain a cross-Atlantic cultural exchange. “Being able to contribute to an American understanding of European tradition of thought at a time when clearly misunderstandings between Europe and America are quite threatening seems to be an important task to undertake,” Rosen said. A 16-year veteran of Oxford, Rosen will not be a complete stranger to Cambridge, Mass., either, where he was assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1981 to 1982. After returning to campus for brief visits in 2004 and 2005, Rosen said...
Furthermore, incentivizing colleges to contribute to a database will be a difficult task. Individual schools have little to gain from the database and therefore have almost no reason to open their records to the government. Given the likely difficulty of collecting data, the database could very well turn into an expensive, useless bureaucracy. Funds toward creating and maintaining such a database would be better spent on other educational initiatives such as grants and loans...
...soon devise a bizarre plan to found a kingdom of birds under his rule and to take over Olympus, with the help of Tereus (Rory N. Kulz ’08) the human leader of the birds. Most impressive was how the Classical Club managed the difficult task of inserting so much new sass without detracting from Aristophanes’ original atmosphere. New peppy rhymes, cheeky dialogues of sexual innuendo, and even a short dance clip of The Robot unobtrusively sidled into line among the lyrical lines of the translation. The War on Terror, Yale University...