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Other teaching fellows use the "tough love" approach towards first-years, acknowledging their lack of educational experience but hoping that lower grades will motivate the students to work harder and rise to the level of older students in the section. But even if these teaching fellows opt to neglect class status in their grading policies, they could still provide first-years with extra help in the form of additional review sessions or additional essay critiques-even additional office hours. Not only could this level the playing field between those of different high school backgrounds but also between first-years...
Whether teaching fellows embrace inflation or the "survival of the fittest" approach should be left to their and the professor's discretion. My concern is that this standard remains consistent across the entire course...
...kids." Others may be worried about favoring one child over another and choose to do nothing. Child psychiatrist Leon Hoffman, who runs the Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, says many parents are afraid of being too aggressive and then take a permissive, hands-off approach...
...tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make it tough," says the official. But such a fight is likely only if Microsoft invests wisely in Washington...
...flamboyant Kevorkian, who obtained judicial permission to represent himself on Monday. ?There is a strange glee about the way Kevorkian conducts his business, which makes it more difficult to talk about assisted suicide,? says Gorman. ?There are no checks and balances on him.? Kevorkian?s all-or-nothing approach glosses over many issues. A very important one is pain. ?It turns out,? says Gorman, ?that many terminally ill patients will not consider the option of death if their pain can be treated adequately.? Another important matter is peace of mind. The death option is not one very many terminally...