Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were electrified by the news that First Daughter Chelsea Clinton paid a visit to the Harvard campus. Nothing this exciting has happened since--well, since it snowed right after Easter! Thankfully, intrepid journalists flocked to report the tale of Chelsea's fateful Cambridge sojourn, leaving no juicy detail uncovered...
...into their preaching is far more lucid than one titled "The Case Against." Yet he is at heart a synthesizer. "The trick," he notes, involves doing "two things at once: digging into history with one hand while tolling the beads of story with the other." That he does not detail the mechanics of that prestidigitation can't be held against him. Whoever shows the way to achieving it will be one of the next age's heroes...
...Council also briefly discussed the working paper on Core reform and agreed to take it up in more detail after it goes to the entire Faculty at next week's meeting...
...logic, econometrics, demographics and mathematical modeling are other possibilities for new courses. In more applied topics, new courses should be developed which give a good one-semester introduction to more traditional mathematics. For example, a course that covered interesting topics in algebra, geometry and analysis without going into excruciating detail could be a good...
...needs baseball. In an age when attention deficit disorder reigns supreme and the images on our television screens race by our brains in fractions of a second, baseball teaches patience. The fielders' changing positions, the batter's fixed stare and the catcher's mysterious signs all mold attention to detail. Baseball can be the antidote to our frenetic and fast-paced culture. If baseball will build us a new home, we will most surely come...