Word: coring
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...must be sought. It is possible, of course, to find; and in some concentrations, like my own, it is easier to do so than it others. But in a variety of departments, from economics, governments, from economics, government and English to computer science and biology (not to mention the core Curriculum), advising and intimate learning environments are rare commodities...
Harvard should improve the quality of our education--for starters, by hiring more Faculty, limiting class size, increasing the number of Core offerings and providing quality advising to everyone, not just to those who seek it--for the same reason it doesn't have to--because it can. Where there's a will there's a way, particularly when you have $13 billion in capital; the fact that the University spent 3 percent of its endowment last year, however (over $100 million less than its own stated goal of between 4 and 5 percent), shows that the will simply...
...chairman Henry Hyde last week tried to shift blame for a protracted process to the White House. Just a week after his chief counsel, David Schippers, had outlined 15 charges against the President, Hyde was telling reporters he planned to "streamline" the inquiry by limiting the case to three core allegations--that the President lied, obstructed justice and tampered with witnesses. But any hope of finishing the inquiry by year's end, Hyde warned, depended on the White House's willingness to stipulate that at least some of the facts in Starr's report are true...
Energy bars were invented with hard-core athletes in mind. Brian Maxwell, distance-running coach at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife Jennifer cooked up the first PowerBars in their kitchen in 1983. They were looking for a performance-enhancing food that marathoners could scarf down late in a race. The Maxwells made a bar that was about 45% complex carbohydrates and only 10% fat. But the trade-off was losing some foodlike qualities: PowerBars have a rubbery texture that can take some getting used...
Absent a real museum, or the civic will to build and endow one, perhaps the only way to habituate fine art to Las Vegas--and vice versa--is to do what Wynn has done in the Bellagio: build a sort of treasure box in the core of the hotel, to which limited numbers of the public will be admitted at $10 a head, hotel guests and high rollers preferred, so that the art itself becomes a spectacle with overtones of privilege and thus matches up with the imagery of the rest of the city. It recalls Marianne Moore's famous...