Word: writings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Clear and Present Danger, Clancy has managed to write a book that does more than tell a dazzling and gripping story. Clancy is clearly frustrated with how the government has treated the military, and has written a story to tell everyone just...
ALTHOUGH Harvard is an outstanding academic institution, it has much to offer outside the classroom. Don't be afraid to try something you've never seen or even heard of before. Play rugby, join a dance class, write for one of the dozens of publications--even if you've never done anything like that before. It could be the greatest experience of your life...
...something came across your desk and you thought it merited attention, you'd write a note saying, essentially...
...people were paying exorbitant ticket prices to watch me write this column in pursuit of a cool half-million-dollar first prize, I would have expected some lusty booing when I overused parentheses two paragraphs ago. I wouldn't have complained, and I really don't think their booing's effect on my concentration could have made the paragraph any worse...
...immediate solution was to make the computer and data exams more difficult. For the data test, this meant requiring less "number crunching" and more interpretation by students. For the computer tests, this meant asking students to write slightly more sophisticated programs--requiring loops, for example...