Word: cues
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...bipartisan farm bills that Congress passes every five to seven years reflect the power and savvy of the farm lobby, which parlays cue-the-violins stereotypes of struggling yeomen into giveaways to the planter class of the South and Great Plains. In reality, the top 10% of subsidized farmers collect nearly three-quarters of the subsidies, for an average of almost $35,000 per year. The bottom 80% average just $700. That's worth repeating: most farmers, especially the small farmers whose steadfast family values and precarious family finances are invoked to justify the programs, get little or nothing...
...Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” is my favorite class this semester. I swore off amino acids and lipids in high school after a nightmarish AP Chemistry experience, but I had one core class left so I picked the one with the best CUE rating and thought I would sit through it quietly...
...days asking professors to offer departmental courses for Core credit under the relaxed guidelines, Herschbach said. Smith could not be reached for comment last night. The move to give students more departmental options to fulfill Core requirements was discussed at a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Wednesday. Classes without final examinations, classes taught by visiting professors or not offered in multiple years, and classes with capped enrollment may now fulfill Core requirements under the relaxed guidelines, according to Prithvi R. Shankar ’09, a student representative at the CUE meeting. Determining which classes will...
...short, it’s pretty clear these kids are looking for historically inconsequential trinkets. Perhaps I could understand if Anthro 1130 was providing students with a rigorous training in archeological methodology. But one look at the CUE guide reveals the course to be what is usually termed a “blow-off” elective class. Fewer than a quarter of the students were taking the course as part of their concentration requirements and the rest might have been attracted by its far-below-average workload and difficulty ratings...
...Right on cue, this paper’s Editorial Board also attempted an opinion, only to fail utterly by trying to have it both ways, praising Petersen’s speech but faulting him for his timing...