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Such refusals to acknowledge the hodge-podge nature of section teaching at Harvard sacrifices the well-being of undergraduates at the altar of expediency. It may be more convenient to treat students like a herd and prevent section switches, but to do so is to fail to treat undergraduate education with the respect it deserves...
TRADITIONAL Democratic voters don't have much confidence in the party. And the Democratic herd of presidential hopefuls hasn't done much to instill any. A New York Times-CBS News poll taken during the week following the market plunge showed that while the Republican candidates lost some popularity, Democratic candidates gained no ground...
...list. In 1970 there were 65,000 of the beasts roaming the rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe. The Zambezi Valley, with more than 500 animals, now holds the world's last viable breeding herd. To defend them, the country has launched a controversial shoot-on-sight war against poachers, who are killing the rhinos at a rate of one a day. "We have an obligation to the rest of the world to save our rhinos," declares Willie K. Nduku, Zimbabwe's director of national...
...same thing for dancing. Before the advent of sound movies, dance for most Americans meant tap dancers "laying down iron" in vaudeville. Before Astaire, screen dance was a thundering herd of chorines tapping out a Busby Berkeley abstraction. "I didn't think I had too much of a chance," Astaire would later say -- with good reason. To be sure, he and his sister Adele had worked their way from Omaha through small-time vaudeville to stage stardom in New York and London. But Adele had retired, and at 34, Fred was not obvious star material: a skinny fellow with...
...Queens Club, he placed his arm about Jimmy Connors' shoulders and positively dwarfed him. On tough points in the past, Becker has been inclined to rear up in celebration like a frisky and defiant Connors, but the effect is somehow unseemly now for the most powerful stallion in the herd...