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Moreover, bringing writing into the classroom in this manner might fundamentally alter the learning environment over time. Students would come to consider each paper not as a requirement for the course but as a chance to make a worthwhile contribution to their own education and to the education of others...
...endgame in Zaire arrived sooner than anyone expected. President Mobutu Sese Seko, the country's corrupt "Supreme Guide" for 32 years, finally ran out of moves. When he grudgingly flew off last Friday for a possible meeting with rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila, Mobutu could choose only his manner of exit: to resign, as his neighbors and former friends were urging, or be thrown out at gunpoint, as Kabila's advancing troops intended to do in short order. Since last October the rebels of Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces have surged across two-thirds of the vast nation, while...
...lives in a mansion designed like a traditional Japanese home, he's also spending $40 million to build a bigger one. While most Valley manses conform to California's earthquake code, Ellison's meets a more stringent requirement: it is being built, from the wood pegs up, in the manner of a 16th century imperial Japanese residence...
...next Saturday. He has breezily chatted up hosts on morning talk shows, shared his thoughts on evening-newsmagazine shows and kept studio audiences captivated for 90 minutes at a stretch discussing nothing more dramatic than antioxidants, ginseng and the value of regular exercise. Weil's crinkly smile, easy manner and Father Christmas beard certainly help. But what really sells Andrew Weil is the good-health message he comes bearing; and what's most remarkable about that message is just how unremarkable...
...major causes of this gulf is the clannishness exhibited by adherents of the particular disciplines involved. In the manner of medieval guilds, these individual fields of study often seem to erect barriers to prevent anyone who is not actually concentrating in the subject from learning anything about it. Hence the two year long introductory track in Physics, and hence the seemingly incomprehensible post-Kantian meta-ethically relativist vocabulary of some literature classes. Obviously, every field has its own rhetoric and its own intellectual prerequisites, but in many cases these are probably more impenetrable than they need...