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History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon said that while the preassignment program—which is being implemented gradually across the humanities and the social sciences—is “on balance positive,” graduate students should be assigned as TFs based on teaching ability, not financial need...
...University currently requires third- and fourth-year graduate students to serve as TFs in order to receive financial funding. To make assignments merit based, Gordon said the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) should be endowed independently of the FAS and that this should be the University’s highest priority in its upcoming fundraising drive, even above funding for the new campus to be built in Allston...
...effort by the regime to soften its image abroad. "The North Koreans are desperate for good publicity," says Aidan Foster-Carter, a Korea scholar at Leeds University in Britain. "Since they're incredibly bad at [p.r.] themselves, it makes sense to have foreigners do it for them." Director Daniel Gordon suggests that the project was authorized by Kim Jong Il himself. "Permission for something like this must have come from the very top," he says. Despite his unprecedented access, Gordon says that the government had "no editorial control or input," although when inside the country he and his film crew...
Despite its Flash Gordon looks and unorthodox design, SpaceShipOne was able to more than match Shepard's trailblazing journey. In June it became the first privately funded spacecraft. In October it clinched the $10 million Ansari X Prize as the first such craft to travel to space twice in two weeks. Thanks to the backing of two starry-eyed billionaires...
...every minute appears to have been well spent. The graphics and physics of how objects move in Half-Life 2's world are by far the most realistic ever to grace a computer screen. As you wander the streets of City 17, the alien-controlled police state your character Gordon Freeman is attempting to subvert, you have to rub your eyes to realize you're not actually visiting an East European capital. And check out the mayhem you can cause with Gordon's gravity gun, which sucks in any metal object, then fires it out at will. The only catch...