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...understand that they can consult their books. The effort is to make them synthesize [the course material],” he said...
...take great delight in people finding interesting and obscure books on our shelf,” Patrick Carrier says. “There’s a tremendous amount of effort that we [put] into it, and it only works if interesting customers come in and find interesting things...
...squad also arrived ready to compete. Co-captain Jack Brady, in the first event of the championships, placed third in the men’s hammer throw with a distance of 60.48 meters. Brady’s throw, a personal best, rested just 0.28 meters behind the second-place effort, despite high wind at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium...
...effort to raise public awareness concerning the DREAM Act and in order to get Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s attention, a group of three freshman students produced and filmed a public service announcement video...
...Islamic culture is encapsulated also in the Europe-wide debate over the veil. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has promised to push ahead with a ban on the full veil, and Belgium has become the first European nation to hold a successful vote on the subject. A concerted effort has been made to tie the debate over Islamic dress to women’s rights within Muslim society. Politicians repeatedly invoke the need to “liberate women,” while some left-wing members of parliament have gone so far as to label the burqa...