Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would still be at Harvard today," he says. Although the former associate professor of Slavic Languages--Who is described by many of his old students here as the finest teacher they have ever known--emphatically denies that he feels any bitterness towards the University, it is impossible not to detect a note of regret when he speaks of the friends he made and the students he taught in 15 years at Harvard...
...distinctions that demand clarification Strenio attacks the concept of basic competancy testing for high school diplomas on the grounds that it discriminates against students whose high school curricula weren't geared to the test. He thus ignores the point that a properly "basic" test is designed to detect severe shortcomings in the school system. And afterarguing convincingly that the tendency for schools to coach for tests rather then teach subjects is harmful, his "Beating the System" chapter heartily recomments SAT prep course plugs Stanley Kaplan by name, and adds that in prepping properly for the tests a student should pick...
...emptive strikes, and on aircraft (including perhaps a new supersonic bomber), which can scramble quickly the moment that the U.S. appears to be under attack. Because of improvements in satellite-guidance systems for submarine-launched ballistic missiles and in the technology of slow, low-flying, hard-to-detect and exceedingly accurate cruise missiles, the U.S. is approaching the point where it need not rely quite so much on its land-based missiles in order to maintain a credible deterrent...
...argued that under the option, professors would have seen enough of a student's work to be able to detect "any trend of improvement" demonstrated by a student who didn't attend a final...
FORTUNATELY, the Foundation has no name. It will not be a "Third World" Foundation because the University smells separatism in that label--for once agreeing with many Black students who detect dangerous ambiguity in a term that places so many cultures in one neat group. The Foundation needs to emphasize the uniqueness of each culture--the proposal seems to understand this...