Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EVENING last summer, I sat on the porch of the home of a family friend, a Belgian official of the European community (EC), and listened as he made the case that the time had come for a politically unified European superstate. "We have more people than you Americans, and a giant GNP," he said. "Why should we play second fiddle to you in matters of security and foreign policy...
...more I think about the question, the more hardened is my view that Europe is dashing too fast toward political union. With the Soviet Union's implosion, the EC faces no external threat that can mute the expression of its intense national rivalries and important power asymmetries. In this context, real, lasting unification is impossible...
...rudely awakened from a comfy doze in Ec 10 lecture when the person next to you whips out his stainless steel ruler to copy a simple supply and demand curve from the board...
There's a term for your roommate and your friends in Ec 10 and Cabot. Echoes of the epithet can be heard across campus from lectures in Sanders Theater to Bio 2 in the Science Center to meetings of the Society of Nerds and Geeks (SONG) in Mather House. In slightly less than scientific terms, all of the above cases demonstrate the Anal Retentive at Harvard...
Elmendorf stresses the intensive training that teaching assistants for Ec 10 undergo. The coursehead of Gen. Ed. 105 also sung the praises of his cast of teachers, which include "novelists and photojournalists...residents at the Medical School and a labor organizer...