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...often at Harvard, aloof superstar professors let their TFs do most of the real teaching, whether the grad students are ready to handle discussion sections or not. This hit-or-miss method of undergraduate education is the critical problem facing undergraduate education at the University, and we expect the College to do more than make TFs take a class...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Making Sections Work | 11/9/2004 | See Source »

...does serve a limited number of premade “bubble teas” in addition to offering the option of adding tapioca pearls to high-quality iced teas. The iced tea—flavors vary by day—is consistently superb, but the bubbles may be hit-or-miss, occasionally under-cooked and hard in the center or too big to fit through the straw. Tealuxe serves its tea unsweetened, which is a bonus for those who prefer to take their tea without sugar, but the shop also offers a variety of options (sugar syrup, honey, sugar...

Author: By V. ELIZABETH Encisco and Feilin A. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Whose Boba Is Best? | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...there will always be that little hop that changed modern rock forever—the astonishing ’60s and ’70s rock group the Velvet Underground. Although their group work guaranteed Reed a place in musical history, much of his solo work has been hit-or-miss...

Author: By Akash Goel, William B. Higgins, Nathaniel A. Smith, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Music | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...interviews for this series, 24 students who have sought mental health treatment at Harvard described a confusing and hit-or-miss system that often failed to improve their situations...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Faces Mental Health Crisis | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...generation. Certainly, there's a captivating ambition to his Cremaster cycle, five films totaling seven hours that may have no more than 12 lines of spoken dialogue but are otherwise very full of luscious, baffling imagery--a marching band forming the outlines of reproductive organs--and hit-or-miss celebrities: Ursula Andress, Norman Mailer, Barney himself and the fashion model Aimee Mullins, who is a double amputee. At one point in Cremaster 3 she attaches complicated leg devices that allow her to cut potatoes with her prosthetic feet. You can't tell me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Strange Sensation | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

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