Word: lax
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...course's lax atmosphere extends to Wood's lectures, which are full of pithy asides and sexy Briticisms. (Nota bene: to understand the jokes, you needn't do the reading.) If you feel compelled to read the novels, you'll find some jewels that most English concentrators have never heard of. Among the best are Henry Green's “Loving” and Muriel Spark's “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Unfortunately, Wood spends almost a month on “Atonement” by Ian McEwan, which is taught...
...good advice. Trust me: you don’t want to tackle the nature of existence before you can write a decent essay. To help you write that perfect paper, you’ll be assigned to a faculty member (not a TF) for advising, and despite the lax course requirements—12 courses for the elective track, 13 for honors—you’ll probably need all the help you can get, at first anyway. Along with its “light” course load, Philosophy is famous for Professor Alison Simmons (who is very...
...After snatching a quick 3-0 lead in the starting quarter, FIU allowed a Crimson comeback to tie things up at 4-4 by the end of the period. Defensive pressure and lax offense created few opportunities at the net for either team. By halftime, the score stood at 5 goals apiece...
...study published by Dr. Hector Vila, chief of anesthesiology at the University of South Florida's College of Medicine, showed 10 times the risk of death or permanent injury for surgery performed in doctors' offices rather than in ambulatory surgery centers. The difference, Vila concluded, was largely due to lax anesthesia procedures. In an extreme example, he says, "one plastic surgeon had his girlfriend giving the anesthesia. It didn't take long for something...
...York Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Eliot Spitzer contends, then Grasso must pay back most of the money. If it's no, then the case moves to a second stage, a jury trial on whether the exchange board got tricked into paying the dough or was lax in enforcing its rules. Festivities are scheduled to begin October...