Word: houres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...office.” The meeting offered a jarring contrast, Gordon says, to the one that Neil L. Rudenstine held before he left for Japan as University president in the mid-nineties. Gordon says that Rudenstine convened “eight or nine” Japan scholars for two hours and asked each to tell him “what are you working on, what should I be concerned about, what should I be interested in.” The differences between Rudenstine’s and Summers’ approaches were “so extraordinary...
...little coffeehouse in Cambridge,” as she fondly calls it, will not be the same without her behind its counter.America, however, just might be. “This is a lonely country. When you go to Pamplona—if you are alone for more than an hour, someone will start a conversation with you. If you go on the bus there, you will know the person’s life history before the ride’s over.” So she decided to fashion a coffeehouse in the style of those in Pamplona. It took...
...College recently made me fill one out to get tickets for today’s ceremonies, but the results will never be released. No one has any idea whatsoever what undergraduates as a group think about the proposed changes to general education, or a system of staggered dining hall hours, or the appropriate allocation of funds under the UC’s control. Someone should find out. 2. Think like an undergrad. Many problems could be solved much faster by asking undergrads how to solve them. Among the things an undergrad might tell you: stop ordering the bagel varieties that...
...1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine published a report declaring that moderate exercise was just fine--anything from washing the car for an hour to gardening for 45 min. to raking leaves to taking a leisurely stroll around the block. And it didn't even have to be all in one shot. Three short walks, for example, could substitute for one longer one. Since then, the Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports have all come out with similar guidelines...
...What both sides agree may have been fatal to Busby was a late-hour gaffe in which she seemed to be encouraging illegal immigrants to vote, when she told a Latino audience, "You don't need papers for voting." Though she quickly corrected the slip, saying that she meant "you don't need to be a registered voter" to help the campaign, conservative talk radio hosts had a field day with the comment, which carried particular resonance in a district so near the Mexican border. Yet, even though it came back to haunt her, Busby's gaffe may ultimately hurt...