Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Core offerings are often appropriate for someone learning the material--and how to look at it--for the first time. But some students come to the Core already comfortable with certain disciplines. Rather than forcing them to learn the basics over again, they could be allowed to take a higher level class in the same subject area that gives them a chance to use what they already know...
...that different from taking departmental courses--just a little easier in most cases. Don't take my word for it, ask the English, Economics, Government, and East Asian Studies Departments. They all accept Core courses for concentration credit. If Core offerings did in fact focus exclusively on how you learn rather than what you learn, then the departments--which are more concerned with mastering bodies of knowledge--would not accept Cores for degree credit. But they do, and it should be a two-way street...
...journalists who gathered in Stockholm's Stock Exchange building to learn the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature were once more caught off guard. Naguib who? The answer: Mahfouz, a 76-year-old Egyptian novelist, playwright and film writer. If the choice was predictably unpredictable, the selection procedure seemed familiar. The Swedish Academy again paddled out of the mainstream, this time heading up the Nile to honor the first Arabic writer in the 87-year history of the prize...
...that sounds more like something to be found on the approaches to the Berlin Wall, then it would probably surprise Americans to learn that foreigners entering the U.S. are often accorded a good deal less courtesy than they would expect, perhaps demand, from a Mexican official. Proffering my British passport, with its multiple-entry visa to the U.S. inside, to a Customs officer, the conversation goes like this...
Running Backs: Tony Hinz has to learn to hold on to the football. The past few weeks he looked like he was carrying around a greased watermelon. Hold on, Tony. Hinz has rushed 420 yards in five games this year. Silas Myers moved into second on the rushing list last week. Myers has a grand total of 68 yards rushing...