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...average predicted Rank List of those admitted will be improved. This definite, numerical description provides the easiest way to choose among applicants. In addition, it is understandable that the faculty should want only academically oriented students admitted to the College. However, there should be a continued effort to maintain admission to Harvard College on a broader base than that of predicted academic performance...
...dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that, for all its success in revitalizing the tottering General Education structure, creating interesting new courses, and bringing Faculty stars before undergraduates, the Core has several basic flaws. The most glaring of these is rigidity. The Core’s planners rejected the idea that any course besides those specifically prescribed...
...When Samo signals the presence of a mine by scratching the ground, Emmanuel, his handler, presses a clicker which makes a noise that Samo has been trained to associate with food. He scampers over and snatches his banana from Emmanuel, devouring it in a couple of quick bites. To maintain their conditioning, the rats require regular training when they're not in the field - and on training days, from Monday to Friday, they only eat what they earn. Later, when a rat named Grigory fails to adequately signal the presence of one of the dummy mines, Emmanuel withholds his reward...
...virtually impossible to maintain the relative private experience of a teacher,” he said...
...deep anxiety that the country has veered severely off the right track, that Washington is a cesspool of deception and hogwash, and that the federal government can't be trusted to do much of anything right. At a minimum, McClellan has not made it any easier for Republicans to maintain the balance of power in Washington. But the flap over his book is yet another reminder of how difficult the country will be to govern for whichever party wins in November...