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...common lament heard resounding through Massachusetts Hall, is that all these problems would simply disappear if students paid as much attention to their academics as they did to their extracurricular activities. Indeed, it is all too common for students to report that extracurriculars are the most valuable aspect of their Harvard experience, and be content with what is now a gentleman’s B+ average. But the curricular review is not simply about shifting around the burden of lackluster courses. It must create a framework in which more stimulating interaction and bold thinking is fostered. The review...
...want to get this in our paper too,'" says Wayne Frazer, general manager of the Spencer County Journal Democrat in Rockport, Ind. "People feel like they're getting their information from a friend, as opposed to getting it from a faceless entity." When a reader recently wrote to lament her husband's hearing loss, Miller's reply began, "WHAT...
Though some of the most prized statues, vases and jewelry have been photographed, scholars lament that images and reproductions cannot compare to the value of the original items...
...speak of the decline of libraries today seems odd,” said Kenneth E. Carpenter, former Assistant Director for Research Resources in the Harvard Library. “More information is available more readily than ever before. But ask scholars or librarians, and the response has generally been lament...
...Iraqi people, it just isn't clear that they're particularly happy about all this. The Kurds are thrilled; the Shi'ites will not lament Saddam's passing--but there is understandable caution and fear about what comes next. There may well be jubilation when the last of the Baathist thugs has been routed, but those scenes have already been neutered in the Islamic world by the--outrageously distorted--images of American violence and, more problematically, by the plain fact that infidels have made war on an Islamic state. (One imagines that even the Kurds and Shi'ites have understandable...