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...Harvard,” he adds. “But it was very rewarding because it’s well taught.” Students were particularly impressed by Ritter’s commitment to teaching. After the second midterms came in lower than he expected, Ritter began holding Saturday study group sessions. “He really didn’t want to water down the course,” Liu says. “He’d rather hold extra sessions and change how he was teaching than do that.” “Professor...
...city councillors, who will hold the first budget hearing Thursday, emphasized the importance of a budget that reflects the changing sources of revenue and costs which the city must balance during challenging economic times...
...well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element to the new Program for General Education that the plan was on hold due to the financial crisis...
...Aguascalientes, which has taken place for the last 181 years, was suspended. The fair famously features bullfights but just six minutes before the toreros were to start, it was cancelled. The economic impact of such cancellations will mount as the panic - and the potential declaration of a pandemic - takes hold. Aguascalientes, for example, counts this time of the year as the high-point of its business calendar. The fair provides employment for a lot of people. (See the story about how the vaccine the CDC has prepared for swine...
...sense that something serious had befallen the entire country - not just Mexico City, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi which originally reported outbreaks - has finally taken hold. When the weekend started, no one was certain what was happening or how they had to react. Indeed, the tourist mecca of Acapulco was partying on. I live in Mexico City and when I flew in for a wedding on Saturday, there were no health personnel at the airport, no pamphlets, no nurses, no questions except "where to?" (Read the five things you need to know about the swine flu outbreak...