Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard] student, I could hardly be against shopping period," Lewis says. "I don't think there is really any way for an incoming freshman to know for sure whether she belongs in Math 25 and will enjoy it except to go to the first couple of classes and try to do the first problem...
...India's first grand master when he was only 17. Still boyish-looking at 25, Vishy--as he is familiarly known--is one of India's most famous sporting heroes. Yet he carries himself with an almost Gandhi-like humility. According to S. Lourduraj, one of his high school math teachers, "He was gentle with his classmates and respectful to his teachers. That's why God has blessed him so much." A nondrinker and strict vegetarian, the single Anand invariably travels with his parents. Once asked the secret to his success, Anand said, "I am laid back and relaxed...
...humanities major at Harvard. For a school that claims to produce well-rounded students able to survive in a world increasingly driven by technological issues, a basic understanding of mathematics is essential. We have three Literature and Arts and two Historical Studies cores. Why no math requirement? The QRR is a poor excuse...
While I agree with the majority of the staff's requests, I feel their call for a math requirement is a step in the wrong direction. Instead, the Core should be downsized or eliminated completely so as to provide for the greatest amount of student choice...
...carrier deck. Last week alone, four ominously swirling air masses zigzagged across satellite weather maps, packed so close together that it almost seemed they might merge to form a single monster storm. "You feel like you're standing in the line of fire," says Debby Sandberg, a high school math teacher in Miami. "You just keep waiting for something...