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...logistical pieces--getting the students online, figuring out what all the rules were going to be, seeing how students were going to use them ... I think for a lot of the faculty it felt like being a first-year teacher again." Teachers and students don't make a habit of agreeing on things, but they agree on this: computers crash a lot. "Most computers that we have, have glitches," says Shomari, a sixth-grader at Packer. "They break every five minutes! After a while, you have no care whatsoever for your laptop. It's so, so, so annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old School, New Tricks | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...while, happily, I have abandoned this habit, I still feel that my cultural non-identity puts me in a minority at Harvard. Given enough time, most conversations between acquaintances here will devolve into a discussion of the participants’ heritage, usually by way of a discussion of the etymology of their surnames. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether my classmates’ cultural identities aren’t as newfound as my Freedonian one—albeit more authentic. Our cultural identity isn’t important in our hometowns, where we know each others?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Leaving Freedonia Behind | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...only responsible course of action. We must not send an ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq." This will not help Gephardt in Iowa, but it was an act of courage--Lieberman has made a habit of such acts in this campaign--and a stark contrast to the position taken by both Kerry and Clark, the two alleged warriors in the Democratic field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles In Convenience | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Holmes’ habit has been made possible and perpetuated by Ron Lanius, played by Sweet Home Alabama’s Josh Lucas as a charismatically psychotic son-of-a-bitch, who keeps Holmes around to humiliate whenever an occasion arises. Lanius and his gang, including Dylan McDermott’s David Lind, a mysterious biker with possible psychotic tendencies, hang out at a drug den on Wonderland Avenue...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Movie Reviews | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

...with mandates so vague that terms like “safe area,” ostensibly implying the protection of said area by U.N. troops, become worthless, as happened in 1995’s terrifying massacre at Srebrenica. When shots are fired, U.N. blue helmets have a nasty habit of staying inside the barracks, a symptom of a fuzzy, multinational chain of command and bizarre diplomatic doublespeak...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: U.N. Day Blues | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

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