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...that encourages kids (and musically curious adults) to toy around with a piano keyboard. "From Bach to Bon Jovi, your child will be playing in minutes," the company's tag line promises. And despite the product's crude, toddler-friendly design, the program actually works well to introduce the basic concept of piano fingering without forcing novices to master the complex concept of classical music notation...
...marriage is a civil right, not a matter of state policy. The proposed amendment is fundamentally an exercise in anti-gay prejudice, not popular empowerment, as its supporters constantly (and deceivingly) assert. To place the proposed constitutional ban of gay marriage on the ballot—essentially, to appeal basic civil rights to popular approval—would surely not be a triumph of democracy: it would be a failure of it.Further, the pro-referendum movement’s claims to be the defenders of populist imperative are, given the results of recent elections, hollow. In two consecutive statewide elections...
...just one moving part in a large, complex dynamic. But Kimberlin's grandiosity is as representative of certain parts of the blogosphere as his lack of credibility, all of which makes him a good case study of how the wilder parts of the Web are affecting the most basic functions of our democracy...
...course, but the effort nonetheless comes up short. Though recent CUE reform efforts have focused on tweaking the content of the online forms and on mandating the participation of all teaching fellows, the evaluation process can be much more useful to undergraduates and instructors alike with a few basic changes...
...that the online CUE evaluations process can best be harnessed to improve immediately teaching quality at Harvard has nothing at all to do with the surveys themselves. If every undergraduate is required to complete the evaluations, it should also require them to complete a very basic form of pre-registration for the courses that they intend to take the following semester. This would by no means be a binding declaration, but rather a formal expression of interest in the group of courses that one is contemplating for the next term, however many courses that...