Word: isolationism
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After 1993 senior survey results indicated that most seniors felt that first-year expository writing classes suffered from an "academic isolation" in the curriculum, Sommers and her team began the first-ever long-term study of college writing.
At the meeting a council representative mentioned what a brilliant grass roots campaign the council had run when it polled students concerning a band for Springfest. Indeed that was admirable. Yet, with a student body of only 6,400 people, all living within a few mile radius, every council decision...
The American public and officials in Washington are underestimating the risks to the U.S. of the new European Economic and Monetary Union, and its new currency, the euro. The reason for concern is not that the EMU will mean a stronger Europe that can challenge the U.S. economy. Quite the...
Still, admissions and financial aid policies have fallen victim to what Harvard Financial Aid Director James S. Miller calls a "chilling effect," adding that the policies of each school have developed "in isolation like the platypus in Australia," without the benefit of communication and collaboration.
Elizabeth Strout tests the strength of that umbilical bond in her first novel, Amy and Isabelle (Random House; 304 pages; $22.95). In the small New England town of Shirley Falls, Isabelle Goodrow is a single mother with a shameful secret: her daughter Amy, 16, is illegitimate. As if in atonement...