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...while resident tutors and deans can be better informed of their students’ overall well being. Moreover, much like how the current Q Guide measures professors’ performance at the end of the term, an enforceable and online midterm evaluation system for professors and teaching fellows would allow students and professors to effect changes in the way that a course is taught throughout the course of the term. For example, adjustments to course syllabi based on these evaluations could be made on a more frequent basis, and section leaders could alter the tone of discussion during meetings...
...night, said that the former managing editor is attempting to “keep the golden age [of newspaper journalism] alive” through his work as editor in chief and president of ProPublica, an independent non-profit that Jones described as resisting the current trend of newspapers to allow “investigative journalism to disappear.” ProPublica offers free investigative material to newspapers and other media outlets across the country in addition to publishing its material online. Steiger said that ProPublica’s goal is to “reach the people who can actually...
...that is the existential challenge of 2008: whether we will have a big election or a small one. Will we have a serious conversation about the enormous problems confronting the country-the wars, the economic crisis, the looming environmental cataclysm-or will we allow the same old carnival of swift boats and sound bites? The answer depends on the candidates, of course, and on the media-where cynicism too often passes for insight. But most of all, it depends...
...Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have personally appealed to King Abdullah on the topic during the Saudi monarch's first ever visit to the Vatican last November...
...squelch any suggestion that they might stay away from the Games. China's centrality to the world economy today has given it the equivalent of great-power status, meaning that even when others criticize its human rights abuses, there is too much else riding on their relationship to allow it to be disrupted by such concerns...