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...careful look at the innovative learning already taking place in these courses. Furthermore, we students should approach the idea of synthesizing classroom learning and “real-world” experience with open minds. Many of us who have taken the plunge into activity-based classes are eager for more. We hope the faculty will act on the Task Force’s proposal in tomorrow’s faculty meeting and form a committee to investigate a pedagogical initiative in activity-based learning, one that does not simply piggyback off Harvard’s extracurriculars but engages activity...
...Shore said. “The way to score well is to focus and accept that you’re going to make a couple of bogeys.” Given that three out of the team’s five competitors this weekend were freshmen, the Crimson is eager to use its poor performance on Day 2 as learning experience to ensure that this young squad brings a more focused and competitive team to the Ivy League Championship in two weeks time. “The best thing I can pick out of this [learning experience] is just that...
Should Jews try to assimilate? "We Jews have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies in order to conform...
Born explained the issue to his wife Hedwig, who was always eager to debate Einstein. She told Einstein that, like him, she was "unable to believe in a 'dice-playing' God." In other words, unlike her husband, she rejected quantum mechanics' view that the universe was based on uncertainties and probabilities. But, she added, "nor am I able to imagine that you believe--as Max has told me--that your 'complete rule of law' means that everything is predetermined, for example whether I am going to have my child inoculated." It would mean, she pointed...
...implacable tribal realities. The novelty is that the grand scheme has been proposed by the Saudis, not imposed by outsiders, and it is appealing to the Administration: it holds the prospect of an alliance of moderate Arab states, and Israel, against the growing influence of Iran. "The world is eager for this process," another member of Olmert's Cabinet told me. "But we have moved with the Palestinians from a resolvable political process to an unresolvable religious conflict," a reference to Hamas' refusal, on Islamic grounds, to acknowledge the possibility of a Jewish state. If the Prime Minister...