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...least 20 courses in the field. If the deadline were to be pushed back, potential concentrators would find it difficult, if not impossible, to complete all 20 courses required for graduation. But if DEAS decided to buck a delay and maintain the current declaration deadline, potential concentrators would tend to gravitate toward concentrations that allowed an attractive extra semester’s grace period—a result that would unfairly discourage students from concentrating in engineering...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Concentrating or Procrastinating? | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...something still seems amiss. With the image of Springsteen in mind, fist pumping and voice rising, the song carries a unique ironic appeal, but on its own it seems constrained and impotent, as if forced on the musicians by someone else. The album has its moments, however, and they tend to be those that are, ironically, a little less brave and bold. ‘Daniel,’ perhaps the best of them, is a dreamy cooperation between the two sounds, neither band pushing too far beyond its limits, Tortoise swelling up and down while Oldham?...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Brave and the Bold | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...FAVOR A SHAKE-UP OF INDIGENOUS POLICIES? Governments of all persuasions tend to just chuck money at problems and hope they'll go away. The real issue is that we as Aboriginal people have to take ownership of, and responsibility for, things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Warren Mundine | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...they're not afraid to use, and to their minds it encompasses much more than blatant offenses like physical and sexual abuse. Did you place your child in care before he was ready? Do you praise her more often for what she does than who she is? Do you tend to tell him how he should feel rather than acknowledge the way he does feel? Do you see setbacks as problems rather than challenges? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then - uh-oh . . . this book may have you suspecting that you've condemned your child to mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Best Intentions | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

When you?re a U.S. Congressman and 25,000 constituent families can?t find affordable heating oil this winter, you tend not to care where help comes from. That?s at least how U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia felt last week when Citgo - the U.S.-based company owned by the government of Venezuela?s left-wing President Hugo Chavez - delivered 5 million gallons of heating oil at a 40% discount to low-income Philadelphia residents. Fattah says he doesn?t understand the objections of many congressional conservatives who feel U.S. cities should not be helping improve the image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's Oil Giveaway | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

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