Word: coring
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...courses are preferable to the overcrowded lectures which make up the bulk of the undergraduate experience; still, some Faculty try to justify the merits of large lecture courses. Most coursework is taught by inconsistently trained graduate students, while interaction with Faculty is limited to inconsistently offered office hours. The Core curriculum, even after minor reforms, has limited offerings and is seen by most students as a chore, not an academic exercise...
...Rosen also teaches several courses, including a Core class, Historical Studies A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World," and two government seminars: "War and Politics" and "Political Psychology and International Relations...
...there is a deeper reason that the Louima case doesn't necessarily portend a slowdown in attempts to cover up police brutality. Call it the white wall of silence--the implicit bargain that Giuliani, like the mayors of many cities, has made with his mostly white core political supporters. They reckon that voters will tolerate heavy-handed police tactics as long as they don't have to see them; that most nonwhites, especially young males, are considered suspect, and that wholesale violations of their civil liberties are an acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That...
That question lies at the core of the dire declarations in the report that China has systematically stolen our vital security secrets, pilfering design information on every advanced thermonuclear warhead we deploy, on missile guidance, even on the never fielded neutron bomb, to acquire weapons knowledge "on a par" with the U.S. With "insatiable" appetite and "enormous" energy over decades, Beijing's agents mined valuable military information from every corner of the American military-industrial complex and haven't given up yet. From that time to the present, a permissive, often inept U.S. government let the People's Republic help...
...that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft's browsers are now under legal assault," says TIME technology correspondent Chris Taylor. "But NT, because it's the core of the soon-to-be-shipped Windows 2000, is really the one that has the most bearing on the PC world...