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...most crucial question facing the company, however, is quite basic: does Rosetta Stone actually work? The company's teaching method is called "dynamic immersion," in which users are taught a new language through images, text, and sound. There is neither translation nor grammar explanations. You learn by listening to people talk in the language you're trying to master, and by reading words on a screen. The images clue you into the meaning of the words. The system eschews rote memorization - Rosetta Stone promises you'll learn a second language in the same way a child learns...
Through all the current optimism about negotiations and rapprochement with Iran, we cannot lose sight of one basic fact: Allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons would destabilize the entire international order...
...Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), a young but eager political blogger for The Globe, Cal discovers that at the center of the plot is PointCorp, a private company bidding for Defense Department contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan that Collins is investigating.Based on a BBC television miniseries, the film follows the basic conventions of a political thriller. Macdonald includes the obligatory love triangle as well as the requisite parking garage chase scene that we’ve seen so many times before. The movie bears a passing resemblance to other classic political thrillers such as “The Manchurian Candidate?...
Budget cuts are a dime a dozen these days and a basic fact of life during a recession, though we do hope the cuts end up saving us more than just a few dimes. Spending cuts are often unfortunate, especially at Harvard—a place accustomed to abundance. Yet these cuts are also probably highly prudent and necessary, though it is difficult to be sure, since the university’s true financial picture remains cloudy. The decision made earlier this semester to reduce annual FAS departmental budgets and annual House budgets by 15 percent was a difficult concession...
...General Education does not have a fundamental program like the one that we are beginning to consider, we will be failing Harvard’s undergraduates by not providing them with a basic opportunity for their education,” he said...