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...Rachael Ray demonstrates a one-minute party punch, while Tyler Florence explains how to make a simple salad dressing in seconds. For beginners, there are basic lessons on subjects like chopping vegetables, cleaning shrimp and rolling dough. The site is free, but many of the videos are preceded by brief...
...witnessed does. In mid-January, the man joined a remarkable protest against the local government's decision to seize communal farmland and lease it to a foreign investor. For several days, more than 1,000 villagers gathered near the disputed land, brandishing pitchforks and blocking a highway. But the brief exercise in free expression ended in tragedy. As dusk fell on Jan. 14, men armed with electric batons poured out of police vans and attacked the farmers. Villagers say a 13-year-old girl who tried to hide behind a woodpile was beaten to death, and they estimate that...
...last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic.? Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday?s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue:? Maya.? That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear...
...their curricula so as to be consistent with the logistical requirements of Core courses, which include that courses have midterm and final examinations. (We humbly remind professors who prefer to give a final paper that a final exam need not be a three-hour examination; in our book, a brief unit test would suffice, too.)The effects of more departmental courses that are cross-listed as Core courses will not be substantially different than the effects we envision after the implementation of the General Education proposal. Students will benefit from taking more rigorous departmental courses, although a few departmental courses...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby released a brief letter to professors yesterday in which he spoke of the “difficult circumstances” over the past five weeks that have seen both his and University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignations, while praising the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for having “continued its work with unflagging energy and goodwill.” The message, which is less than 400 words in total, comes as the Faculty awaits Kirby’s annual Letter to the Faculty. In past years, Kirby?...