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...some bumbling grad student who went to Idaho State, you can choose absolutely anyone, regardless of their University professorship, how many books they’ve authored, or academic rock-star status. You can even request two professors to be available for weekly check-ins, junior paper advising, or default company at your House faculty dinner. And there is at least one all-you-can-eat sushi party every semester. Add some sake-bombs and you may as well be concentrating at Shilla. While overzealous but endearing department chair Michael Puett will tell you as many times as there...
...mouse also has a one-tap search button. Highlight a word or phrase then touch the button marked by a magnifying glass, and a page of Google search results appears out of nowhere. You can actually select your favorite search engine, and the results appear in your computer's default browser. (Keep in mind that the browser you use everyday may not be the default. If you click the search feature and a different browser launches, check your browser's settings.) In all fairness, most web browsers already have quick-search functions. You highlight something, right-click, then select...
Kohn's solution is radical: he wants a no-homework policy to become the default, with exceptions for tasks like interviewing parents on family history, kitchen chemistry and family reading...
...without bipartisan support. Indeed, it has often attempted to use the war for partisan gain. To be sure, there is some grist to the Republican portrayal of Democrats as a bunch of wimpy peaceniks. All too often in the post-Vietnam past-the first Gulf War, for example-the default position of the Democratic Party has been to assume that any prospective use of U.S. military power would be immoral. But Bush's initial post-9/11 response was not one of those times. The invasion of Afghanistan and an aggressive effort to destroy al-Qaeda were supported by just...
...deal with the lingering guilt of living like kings among the ruins of what was once Latin America’s strongest economy. For the record, there are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than in any other city in the world.Argentina’s 2001 default on over $140 billion in international loans imploded the economy, precipitating a massive bank run and widespread civil unrest. When the dust settled, the Argentine peso was trading at roughly four to the American dollar, after a decade of parity. Europeans and North Americans began to trickle into Buenos Aires...