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...women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend stories are notoriously difficult to substantiate—for every 10 anecdotes pointing one way, one can easily find 20 the other. This particular New York Times article?...
...syllabus and reminder e-mails explicitly affirm that no extensions will be granted, it’s a good idea not to push your luck. If late papers are threatened with penalties, but no precise grade deduction is described, a precisely worded e-mail should do the trick. Generally aim to send it out about six to twelve hours before the deadline; the closer to the dark, sweaty center of the night the better. Explain the extenuating circumstances, whether genuine or not, that led to your not having been able to “properly put in the time...
...himself to education reform. He co-directs Learning by Redesign, an organization that explores of novel ideas in elementary and secondary education.In a September 1998 interview with NEA Today, the magazine of the National Education Association, Wilson explained his interest in K-12 education.“If your aim is to have an impact on science literacy... you need to rivet your attention on the 46 million students in our public schools, not on graduate students in our universities,” he said.—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...month, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said that he hoped to bring Kappes back as Hayden's deputy. Officials said this was a signal to CIA employees that the White House, DNI and a military general were not planning to impose their will randomly on the CIA but aim to continue reforming the Agency with the guidance of a respected veteran spook. At his confirmation hearing in mid-May, CIA Director Hayden praised Kappes, calling him "a guy who knows the business...
...curve plots popularity against inventory. At one end are the singular hits (say, Batman); at the other end lies the vast, untapped backlist (say, every less popular comic-book-based movie ever made). The biggest companies in all industries usually aim for blockbusters, but slide down the curve, and there are huge opportunities in everything else--the long tail. If Anderson's thesis is correct, most media and technology companies will have to do no less than rethink the core of their business...