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...more than any other factor, define the undergraduate experience. Students can only evaluate professors by sitting in on their classes; reading the CUE Guide alone is a poor substitute. Harvard has long claimed to encourage quality teaching from the Faculty, not just good research. Yet preregistration, by attempting to corral students into choosing courses sight unseen, would reduce the opportunity for students to search out these engaging teachers. This persuasive reasoning has underpinned shopping period for generations...
...voicing their increasingly shrill demands that the United States consult the U.N., France, Russia, Germany and the rest of the gang apparently missed the fact that Iraq is not in compliance with several Security Council resolutions. Bush was able to paint himself as the champion of internationalist legitimacy and corral his allies at the same time...
...failed to get Villa, though it broke his power. After his final defeat, he promised to settle down and be good, if it were made worth his while. It was... [He] is mourned by five ladies, each claiming to be his widow. This does not include Senora Luz Corral de Villa, his lawful wife, who is living in the United States...
Never mix a 200-pound python and a pit bull. A California guy did this and the former ate the latter. For safety reasons, officials could not corral the python...
...temperate climate. Tech millionaires from Dell, Compaq and Microsoft, tobacco-settlement lawyers, oil- and gasmen (back in the money, thanks to the California energy crisis) have all snapped up parcels from 50 acres to 100 acres, replacing ranch houses with mansions, throwing up 10-ft.-high fences to corral herds of exotic animals--and changing a way of life forever. There are traffic jams in the cowboy-cute town of Bandera these days, and the population in the surrounding counties has grown 60% in the past 10 years. Land values are soaring too, from $1,500 an acre for prize...