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...motion to be tabled, saying it would “undermine a strong tradition of faculty self-governance in the area of teaching.”Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield’s ’53 rose a few minutes later, and armed with a torn-in-half piece of notebook paper, launched a blunt attack on the current system of student evaluations.“Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors,” Mansfield said.Mansfield said that “the opinions...
...book looks, at arm's length, like something for kids, with cute characters akin to Pokemon, interacting in a colorful environment. But a closer read reveals a cruel world of domination and subjugation that often involves weird forms of violence. "Why is the purple guy having his skin torn off by the orange one," may be a typically unwanted and unanswerable question for a parent. Those without such concerns, however, will enjoy the schadenfreude humor and wild imagination of A.L.I.E.E.N...
...Atwar Bahjat stood out [from the other candidates] because so many of her fellow Iraqis saw her as a courageous voice for unity in a war-torn country,” said Heath. “Bahjat was half-Shiite and half-Sunni and called for unity even in her last broadcast...
African money is among the dirtiest in the world - literally. Many African central banks simply don't replace notes until they fall apart. In countries torn by war, like the Democratic Republic of Congo or Sierra Leone, years can pass before new notes are printed. In Somalia a few years back, bank notes became so scarce that warlords started printing their own money, causing inflation, predictably, to skyrocket...
...currency's value has declined, so has its condition. Many Naira notes are tattered and stained. In the past few years Nigeria's Central Bank has started printing 500- and 1000-Naira notes, which tend to be cleaner. But most 20-, 50- and 100-Naira notes are torn, grimy and full of sweat from being grasped by bus conductors all day or stuffed down the bras of market women working in the scorching sun. One TV ad actually shows a woman hiding some Naira notes in her ample cleavage. "The moisture from the body, food and other fluids allow germs...