Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students have little time to be tourists. For many, knowledge about Boston revolves around where to change to the blue line en route to the airport, and few have struck out to explore the city, much less to make it their own. Whether you're a rower, a hard-core thesis writer or just someone who's staying around, take this Spring Break to acquaint yourself with the city across the Charles. To lend some direction to your wanderings, FM recommends starting at the beginning, with the sights and activities you would have first encountered had Boston been your city...
Head towards the Science Center for a quick overview of academics. Stand in that little area behind Science Center C where Core course selection is great, professors are approachable and never go on sabbatical, and sections are your most fulfilling academic experience. Then field questions...
...many of us have had a paper returned with a mediocre grade only to see a comparable paper by someone in a different section praised to the skies by a different TF. Indeed, one of the largest problems with the Core is the fear of random assignment into the section of an unfair TF who's grading practices are out of line with the rest of the class. Professors can do much to alleviate this problem, however, by circulating a set of standards and expectations to be evaluated in every paper in exam. Make sure the TFs follow the standards...
...Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...
...great Yankee teams of 1936-1939 and 1949-1951 (not to mention the ones of '41 and '47) had one thing in common, and that thing was out in center field every day. For all the individual glory that baseball celebrates, it remains a team sport, and the core of those teams was DiMaggio. His fans worshipped him; his teammates merely asked in their prayers every night that God watch over...