Word: fitful
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...makes it harder for professors to design courses for the category right away. Kenen said that David M. Cutler, an economist and a former divisional dean of the social sciences, organized several lunches with faculty last year in order to urge them to create new Gen Ed classes that fit in the Societies of the World and the United States in the World categories. Despite Cutler’s efforts, though, Kenen said that the lunches have not yet yielded many new course proposals. She added that the Gen Ed committee is hoping to receive many more proposals in January...
...Malebranche. Despite the dry, theological substance of their dialogue, Nadler’s lively narrative creates an engaging portrait of the 17th century that brings to life their philosophical conversation. Even though Nadler does not truly make an argument for any of the ways to view the world or fit them within a larger argument of his own, he offers the reader an introduction into the world as the three philosophers saw it.The three philosophers focus on questions of God’s identity and his intentions in creating the world the way it is. Is this the best world...
...dreamlike quality of this and many of the other songs.“It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry” continues with the early rock sound, led by a tambourine. James Allan almost sounds like Mike Skinner as he tries to fit too-long lines into the meter of the song. Instead of being sloppy, however, these rushed lines come off as endearing.“Go Square Go” is a hectic, rock club-by piece that seems ultimately conducive to circle dancing, jigging, and moshing. It also brings...
...idea of China as the gravitational center of a globalized world is something most countries have gotten used to. But classical music hadn't seemed like it would be part of that mix, if only because Western opera and the Eastern world never made a natural fit. To outsiders, the traditional Peking opera seemed as much circus as song, with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that...
...shorter-range Iskander is brand-new. Its range is some 175 miles (280 km), and can be increased to reach targets not just in Poland, but in the Czech Republic as well. This precision weapon can easily avoid enemy radars and carries a payload of 480 kg. Russia will fit its Iskander arsenal with cluster, blast-fragmentation, penetration, and possibly even, thermobaric warheads. A tactical nuclear warhead could also be an option, though Medvedev pointedly refrained from mentioning that...