Word: cues
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...China’s “Harvard”——people were crammed six to a single room, there were bathhouses instead of private showers, and lights had to be out by a certain time. There was no centralized course catalogue (a CUE Guide? Forget about it! My.harvard.edu? Are you kidding?). There was no financial aid system (or book fund, or winter clothing fund, or Student Events Fund) to somewhat try to efface felt class differences. There was no grants system that exuded money like ours does, so that we can do anything with...
...cue, a young mother enters the shop cradling a baby in a lace bonnet. Omar cuts her a hunk of meat from a carcass hanging in the window, then writes down her name in a ledger. "These are the people who can't pay me. See? Many pages. Thousands of shekels. But how can I refuse them?" he asks. The woman leaves, and the shop is empty save for a few flies stirred in the air by a ceiling...
...stronger economy (through lower taxes), stronger families. "You know," he often says, very Reagan, "there are people out there who actually believe America is great because of its government." Gasps and groans. "Well, we have a great system of government, but America is great because of" - pause for effect, cue passion - "its people...
...last several semesters, low CUE guide participation rates have hampered both pedagogical improvement and students’ academic experience. Despite desperate tactics—haranguing e-mails from everyone from the president of the University to one of the stars of the football team, Clifton G. Dawson ’07—Harvard cannot seem to get students to fill out their CUE guide evaluations. Considering both the significant monetary savings that have resulted from moving CUE evaluations online and the vast decrease in response that has resulted, we are compelled to support faculty legislation that would make CUE...
...While that class seemed cool (sounded like you’d be spending the semester experimenting with DNA of super-humans or radioactive mutants or something) it did not seem like the type of class that would yield an “easy A.” The CUE Guide was also a little disconcerting to me. If the rumors I’d been hearing about Harvard’s grade inflation were true, then why was there a “difficulty” rating listed for each class in the CUE? What was this rating referring...