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While there’s no foolproof cure for The Slump, there are some promising home remedies. Beer is one treatment. And drinking with other people is even better. Dialogue with other sophomores about shared frustrations often produces a striking common ground. Results are best with a group discussion, kind of like a Sophomore Slump section. A typical session contains several sentences by each sophomore beginning with the phrase “I hate…” and ending with a chorus of the rest...
Shieber warned, however, that the CS model itself is not foolproof. For example, it would not recognize that a course such as a sophomore tutorial is a required class for all concentrators and would most likely underestimate the number of students who will take the course...
...will never be able to make all the [TF] appointments in advance, since no enrollment prediction methods are foolproof,” Ellison said. “[But] if the CS 96 project is helpful in this, I would love...
...have always done, the new crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those aging boomers who still roam the record racks...
...doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Robbie Williams sold millions crooning the classics with Swing When You're Winning in 2001; former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those aging boomers who still roam the record racks. It has worked for Stewart, financially at least. Having rasped his way through 2002's It Had to Be You ... The Great American Songbook...