Word: core
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...study whatever interest them. "You cannot possibly blame Harvard if the year does not turn out to be profitable," Harry Mapondo of Malawi says. "The beauty of the program is that it does not pin you down I did whatever I wanted." But many mention the need for a core requirement, so that some common background for each student will be established. "We have a shadow core." Assistant Professor of Public Policy Shantayanan Devarajan says, "We view certain analytical tools--economics, statistics, policy analysis and one other substantive area as material that they should know when they...
Tension between a spiritual core and a realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how I must seem to you, sir Just another sincere but limited academic." Then, as relations between the two men deteriorate further, Tucker is reduced to a caricature again. Golding's spiritual concern over Tucker as a human being wars with the literary problem of how to depict him. This tension...
Second year student Matthew H. Tueller said that the K-School core curriculum "seemed designed for the type of material the PMI interviewers asked...
Cobb's primary change in the structure of the seven-semester master's program, the first four semesters of which are a strict core program with few electives, has been to reintroduce the requirement of a thesis, a requirement...
With his triumph in Pennsylvania, Mondale demonstrated again, as he had the previous week in New York, that he can put together the traditional coalition of core Democrats-the elderly, union workers, the poor and local party leaders. Beyond that, he cut into the presumed Hart strengths among younger, better-educated and career-oriented voters. Mondale won handily, taking 47% of the vote to Hart's 35% and Jesse Jackson...