Word: georgie
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...Ricin is already lodged in the memory of many older Britons. In 1978, in one of the more bizarre political killings of the cold war, Georgi Markov - a dissident Bulgarian writer and broadcaster living in London - died after being shot in his right thigh on Waterloo Bridge with an umbrella rigged to fire a minuscule pellet containing ricin. Now the Wood Green neighborhood finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda...
Leverett and Quincy Houses, however, are not allowing students to evaluate their tutors. Leverett House Master Howard Georgi has argued that the evaluations undermine the sense of House community by fostering an adversarial relationship between student and tutor. But this claim was not borne out in the Houses that did trial surveys last year. House tutor evaluations will offer valuable feedback and information that will be used by tutors to improve their performance in creating entryway communities and advising students on fellowships and academics...
...things that I worry about in a formal tutor evaluation system is that it might undermine this delicate feeling of tutor community,” Georgi wrote in an e-mail to the House. “Our present system of tutor evaluation is very much informal, and certainly not something that can be captured in a sequence of integers from...
...tried to hard to convince other masters that this was the wrong approach,” Georgi wrote in the e-mail. “Each of the Houses is different, and it may be that in other Houses it will do more good than harm...
Leverett House resident tutor Kate Holbrook echoed Georgi yesterday in criticizing the evaluations, saying they would interfere with natural interaction in the House. She also used the analogy of a family to describe Leverett...