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...stovepipe" system--vertically aligned computers that do not communicate with one another. Tracking down the records of a single taxpayer means getting access to as many as nine different computer systems. The once vaunted IRS computer system has trouble accomplishing what would seem to be the most basic of functions: reconciling Social Security numbers, W-2 forms and even the number of children in a household. Notes Gross: "Resolving taxpayer account issues often requires considerable research on multiple systems and a series of complex, time-consuming tasks to update the various databases." In English: You can't get there from...
This decade has been one of great progress. As long as we continue to meet people, to spread our message, to fight for basic rights to employment, housing and services--indeed, as long as we continue to champion justice for all, we will be victorious...
According to that argument, he said, Asian societies cultivate their own definition of human rights. In China, for example, only some of the most basic rights are guaranteed, Lee said...
...potential course could be an introductory computer science class, designed to be significantly less intense than CS 50. In this course, students could learn BASIC--a relatively simple programming language--and the fundamentals of programming. Some courses would stress skills that are becoming very necessary in our daily lives. For example, this introductory computer science course could also cover some basics of networks so that students could learn what happens every time they check their e-mail...
...Paper lists the basic features of a Core course as "teacher, students, content and review process" (p. 28). Beyond the intellectual illegitimacy of such a vacuous definition, it is obvious to us from this that the only difference between a Core course and a departmental one is the element of the review process. Not incidentally, it is this very review process--one whose vision is blind-sided by the awful Core categories--that is responsible for the limited number of Core offerings and the unwillingness of Faculty members to propose courses. As Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis...