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...says Malan. Since he began teaching the course two years ago, Malan has sought to dispel this stigma. He’s brought in LOLcatz, physically ripped a phonebook in half to demonstrate binary search, and even debuted a clothing line of CS50 apparel. His former Mather House Master, Sandra A. Naddaff ’75, is hardly surprised by these endeavors. “He has a very entrepreneurial spirit as well as real intellectual creativity and he’s not afraid to use it in the classroom,” says Naddaff. Professor and Associate Dean...
...Again - the film is a body-swap comedy about a sour guy in his 30s (Matthew Perry) who gets to inhabit his cool teenage self (Efron) - could be the title of the young star's career. As basketball stud and dance master Troy Bolton, he headlined three editions of Disney's High School Musical: two wildly popular TV specials and a movie version that earned $251 million at the world box office. He also co-starred in the hit film Hairspray, a savvier, '60s high school musical...
...surmise that Harvard’s administrators likely spend much more time shaking the hands and sharing the confidences of the rich and powerful than they do finding out the names, fears, dreams, and wisdom of the janitors, cooks, and guards who, in that long-lived tradition of master-servant relations, labor invisibly each day,” Jehn wrote in the Globe article.Preceptors also continue to voice objection to the current system of one-year contracts—which preceptors have protested denies them job security—and a five-year limit on working in the position...
...basic: does Rosetta Stone actually work? The company's teaching method is called "dynamic immersion," in which users are taught a new language through images, text, and sound. There is neither translation nor grammar explanations. You learn by listening to people talk in the language you're trying to master, and by reading words on a screen. The images clue you into the meaning of the words. The system eschews rote memorization - Rosetta Stone promises you'll learn a second language in the same way a child learns his or her first...
...Rothman, the Columbia professor, says that Stossel is the master of the “straw man” argument, constructing the rationale for conflict of interest regulations to aid his position...