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...Committee recommended the institution of a three-week January Term (J-Term) in which students could choose to travel, perform community service, conduct research, or even enroll in an intensive academic course. Abstractly, such an opportunity to focus intensely on one pursuit seems like a rare luxury, especially in comparison to the frenetic pace of the fall and spring semesters. And, to be fair, the concept has proven successful at a number of colleges such as MIT, Williams, and Oberlin—but only by virtue of a strong commitment, in terms of time, money, and effort, by faculty, administration...
...recent study by the Council of Graduate Schools found an 8 percent rise in the number of international applicants, but that gain pales in comparison to last year’s 12 percent increase...
Harper hall is nothing special, a four-story stone dorm on the south side of the Virginia Tech campus, small by comparison to its neighbors on the outside and on the inside today, quiet - just the way Cho Seung-hui had liked things...
...This Indian version of America's "culture wars" is at a much earlier stage than its U.S. equivalent. The upper middle class that Kakar says is finally becoming "free from the sexual conservatism of the past" is still quite small, especially in comparison with the hundreds of millions who remain culturally conservative, if markedly less strident than the Hindu hard-liners Indian newspapers dub "the moral brigade...
...headline screams: "Pedro Montaño Kills Attorney General's Son." Violent conflicts of class and devotion, duty and death are established and brought to a boil in this scene -which consumes exactly 38 secs. of screen time. It makes that YouTube synopsis of The Sopranos seem logy by comparison...