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...classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared text, they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
...mining pits--and as head of the U.S. Forest Service, he's in a position to do something about them. Last week Dombeck called for a moratorium on new mining claims on hundreds of thousands of acres of Rocky Mountain forest, and this week he is expected to halt road building on millions more acres of federal land. "Our performance should be based on the long-term health of the land," Dombeck says, "rather than the number of board feet produced...
Unfortunately for the Harvard men's squash team (6-1), its 91-match home-court winning streak came to a screeching halt Saturday with an 8-1 loss to No. 2 Trinity. However, this was not entirely unexpected, as Harvard was the underdog coming into the match. TRINITY (WOMEN) 1 HARVARD 8 TRINITY (MEN) 8 HARVARD...
...House managers will do everything they can to push across that boundary, confronting Lott with another set of difficult choices as he tries to grind the process to a halt without angering G.O.P. Senators who feel the prosecution has been slighted. Rather than calling the 15 witnesses the managers wanted, the prosecutors were limited to what Henry Hyde called a "pitiful three." In the crunch, Betty Currie was dropped from the list in exchange for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal. Though calling Currie was once thought to be central to proving the obstruction case, some managers decided the spectacle...
...Russian towns that have "adopted" submarines. The local utility has periodically shut off electric power because the Sevmash yard hasn't paid its bills. Its restless, unpaid workers have been threatening to strike. As dozens of Russian submarines rust in port, production of new ones has ground to a halt...