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...wasn't a perfect fit. Apple is famously secretive, surprising the market with its new products, while Nike usually informs retailers of its plans six months in advance. In this case, Nike acquiesced to the Apple way, putting Nike Plus on sale just 50 days after announcing it. The project carried code names: Nike, the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, was Victoria North, and Apple was Victoria South...
...search is considered a worthwhile investment in the quality of the FAS faculty. By making the first step as even as possible for those outside and inside the system, FAS allows itself to search freely for those best fit to fill gaps in the curriculum. Harvard is willing to go to great lengths to claim great minds, and some of the University’s most prized luminaries—including Stephen Pinker, Homi Bhabha, and Stephen Greenblatt—have entered the gates through this process...
...making the first step as even as possible for those outside and inside the system, FAS allows itself to search freely for those best fit to fill gaps in the curriculum...
...primary (and perhaps only) criterion for determining what qualifies be whether or not a course fulfills the objectives laid out? Why are random characteristics like the number of students in the class considered more important than whether a course’s themes and aims fit perfectly with the description of what a Historical Study-B course is?And as for the “problem” created by a course’s being offered only once, if the Core Department were to do away with this arbitrary distinction and loosen its requirements, there would always be more...
...executed the following year, looms like an hallucinatory apparition over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of central Sindh Province. Meant to evoke the soaring grandeur of Mughal monuments, from a distance the concrete monstrosity rather resembles a Play-Doh model of the Taj Mahal pinched to fit on a foundation substantially trimmed by the high price of land in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...