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...alternative to recruiting professors to teach in the Core is offering more departmental courses that count toward a particular Core requirement. While the faculty has increased the number of cross-listed departmental courses over the past year, students still complain about irrational inflexibility...
It’s not just prefects who have busy schedules, though. Proctors can be consumed by their other responsibilities as well. Several first-years complain that relationships with proctors are superficial, and that they are hardly ever available. As Arnold Park ’05 says, conversations with his proctor rarely go beyond “How are you doing? Fine? Good.” This is hopefully the unfortunate exception, but many students say they have failed to form meaningful bonds with their proctors...
Maybe I have no right to complain. I’ll be vacationing within driving distance, and so a pre-Thanksgiving section would be aggravating but not apocalyptic. I could leave Cambridge that evening and arrive home just in time to go to bed. My break might be short, but at least I wouldn’t miss the turkey...
Like a married couple who used to nuzzle in public but now squabble over everything from the kids to the breakfast cereal, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are getting on each other's nerves. The Saudis complain that Washington, biased toward Israel, isn't evenhanded in the Middle East. The Americans--to be accurate, elements within a very leaky intelligence community--say the Saudis have been insufficiently cooperative in the investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks. Though President George W. Bush has assured Crown Prince Abdullah of his undying affection, in some U.S. circles, it has become fashionable to question...
...only is there an almost total absence of clues, but, say critics, there's also an abundance of cluelessness within the FBI. Several university labs that work with anthrax, and companies that make or repair equipment that could have been used to process it, complain that the bureau still hasn't questioned them or, when it did, asked the wrong questions...