Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traded laughs with staunch Republican Don Nickles. During a break, the G.O.P.'s Strom Thurmond, 96, drew clementines from his pockets and, with a flirtatious grin, passed them to Cheryl Mills and Nicole Seligman, two of the President's lawyers. Suddenly the chamber resembled nothing so much as a classroom full of kids waiting for the bell to ring. "It's like final exams are just about over," says Gordon Smith, Republican of Oregon. "We're all anxious to head for the exits...
...while teaching law part time at New York University, Ken Starr wanted his students to understand that a good trial lawyer always argues passionately, even for positions he would reject if he were the judge. So Starr turned his classroom into a moot court and pleaded--of all things--Bill Clinton's most famous court failure: the President's argument that as long as he remained in office, the Constitution immunized him from Paula Jones' civil lawsuit...
...biological context, game theory is used to predict the optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every Bio 22 student. He set out to test his students' honesty and to discover if anyone had been paying attention during lecture...
...mailed to all Bio 22 students, the answer key reappeared. As far as Piel knows, it was not distributed to any other members of the class. Amazingly, not only did the well-respected TF get his answer key back, he also proved that perhaps information learned in the Harvard classroom is applicable to real life situations. Even science people can get creative sometimes...
...another development issue, however, Knowles said that Campaign funding did not mean that the Faculty would build to accommodate every call for more classroom space. He instead called on the departments to use existing space more efficiently...