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...content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that’s all you need.Students have no doubt been looking for academic shortcuts for as long as learning has been going on, but this latest development tells us something about ourselves that perhaps we’d be better off not knowing. One might be tempted to blame the enterprising programmers behind these Q-searching tools for leading Harvard...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: An Academic Color-by-Numbers | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...many of you, and this doesn’t bother me. If you grew up in Rhode Island, home to four electoral votes and the only state in the union to have a mayor, a governor and two Supreme Court justices all in jail at the same time, I doubt you would vote either.Though I feel incapable of assessing any of the candidates’ positions on healthcare or campaign finance reform, I do feel I can offer them some fashion advice. Seriously, if any of these fools want to be president they really need to step their game...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Primary Concern: Fashion | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a mouthpiece for the mullahs. I can't vouch for the factuality of the Strait of Hormuz dustup, but I have no doubt about what Iran's ruling clerics want: Shari'a and the rule of the caliphate. Richard Mogelson, MINNEAPOLIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greasy Imperialism | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...Veep in the Old Executive Office Building. Gore watched his priorities often take a backseat to hers in the first term-and his future run aground as they fought successfully to avoid impeachment and conviction. While she joked with David Letterman on his show that there is no doubt "who wears the pantsuits" in her house, there is little doubt that the Clintons intend to work as a team if Hillary is elected. "I'll be there, talking her through everything," Bill said in Napa Valley, Calif., last month, "like she did with me." One unaligned party wise man said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton, Obama: Why Not Both? | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...snarl will prompt a retreat by hardened rebel fighters in Chad. Amid a lull in the battle for control of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Tuesday, Sarkozy responded to rebel threats of renewed violence by warning, "If France must do its duty, it will - let no one doubt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chad, Better the Devil You Know? | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

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