Word: adrift
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Course selection for first-years has always been rough, with many new students finding themselves adrift among the disappointing homogeneity of Core offerings, the impersonal vastness of Social Analysis 10 and the rigid format of some Expository Writing courses. This year, however, the first-year experience is beginning to change, as students find refuge in the newly expanded Freshman Seminar program...
...fact, in just a single week in late July, European companies announced a total of 30,000 layoffs. Stock markets across the Continent may cheer the restructuring measures because companies need to slim down for leaner times. But what happens to the workers after they have been cut adrift from their jobs? How generous are their redundancy packages, how do they go about finding new jobs - and what if they can't? And how do countries, and companies, find the right balance between being compassionate to their workers and competitive in the global economy? Looking at how being laid...
...College is the center of the University’s educational program, undergraduate education must be the central focus of Summers’ reforms. For all that Harvard offers, students are far too often left adrift in large, impersonal concentrations—-and even larger and more impersonal classes. Summers’ reported plans to hire as many as 200 new professors, as well as to encourage a significantly higher rate of tenure for junior professors, would by themselves change the face of the Faculty, but they would have even greater effects on the undergraduate experience. The unparalleled knowledge...
...Four white kids in suitable Backstreet Boys mode strode onto the stage and performed some slickly choreographed pop confections. Perhaps this was a subtle underscoring of the message of the evening. Four young lads adrift in the world... "fragile lives" needing some mature sensible parenting and a role model for how to be grown-up. Step forward the ultimate mother-hen Madonna. Always willing to take young boys under her angelic wings...
...Washington believes Arafat doesn't have a game plan, that he's adrift and doesn't know quite where to turn or what to do. Even last year when he rejected what was on the table at Camp David, he never offered a counterproposal. One of the great frustrations of the Americans is precisely that Arafat lacks a strategy. He seems to be caught in the headlights...