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...Altshuler’s background in political science...and his practical experience in the Massachusetts state government gave him a broad perspective on urban policy and infrastructure issues,” Orfield said...
...powerful and astonishingly new experience. Here are the well-known images - most of them larger than you expect. Nighthawks has a room almost to itself. Details like the salt shakers on the counter pop out at you; the window frame is vivid green, the interior a heartless yellow. The background is rich: an empty shop front emerges from the blue depths. But "Edward Hopper" - Britain's first big show of his work in more than 20 years, with around 70 drawings and paintings - demonstrates that Hopper's vision extends far beyond that lonely diner. The show, which travels to Cologne...
...document in exhaustive detail Kennedy's many infidelities--yes, she digs up a few new ones--as well as Jackie's exceptional grasp of tactical flirtation, cutting off Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev mid-lecture by saying, "Oh, Mr. Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." Somewhere in the background, we glimpse Jack's political evolution from the hothead of the Bay of Pigs to the cool hand of the Cuban missile crisis...
Casey has been trying to make sure that background checks take place as expediently as possible, so that prospective researchers aren’t prevented from meeting academic deadlines...
...problems involved in trying to teach something outside most students’ spheres of experience and confidence which need to be considered more explicitly before still more such classes are foisted upon the much-beleaguered student body. Big issues like the fact that the enrollment represents wildly divergent background knowledge and high-school science curricula. Or the fact that the humble three-letter word “lab” can conjure up a host of negative associations for a nervous humanities major which need to be worked through very slowly and sensitively if the course material is to make...