Word: bol
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...activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew G. Faust conferred briefly with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that I don’t think that that’s an argument for voting in favor of this motion,” Burgard said...
...populist challenge to "imperialist" threats - and what more convenient symbol of colonial oppression for Chávez (besides his favorite, the U.S.) than the Spanish throne, which plundered South America for three centuries before it was thrown out in the 1800s by Venezuelan "Liberator" Simón Bolívar, the namesake of Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution...
...previous report that would have replaced the Core with a system of distribution requirements was released this past January, but it met an icy reception. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Peter K. Bol told The Crimson, “I think that people are beginning to realize that we’re so close to embarrassing ourselves...
...rewarded” with a junior tutorial that’s individualized and caters to your specific interests. While some professors seem like they’ve just returned from their 10-year field assignment in a Xi’an rice paddy, others like Peter Bol are among Harvard’s most knowledgeable, accessible and enthusiastic faculty. Bol and Mark Elliot warrant praise for playing Madonna in Hist A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations,” a class all concentrators are encouraged to take (despite trying unsuccessfully to teach 6,000 years of history...
...three-year-old review of general education, which has been criticized for a lack of vision at every step. “I think that people are beginning to realize that we’re so close to embarrassing ourselves,” says Peter K. Bol, the co-chair of the preliminary committee that first generated ideas for general education in 2004. Some professors say the review’s vision will emerge from the existing proposals once the full Faculty discusses them in depth. Others say they want to send the proposals back to the drawing board...