Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to prepare adequately for the next century, students must have skills, particularly in math, science and computer literacy, Reeves said...
...take the younger brother, William, in Batosag and Szerelem, who grows up in the shadow of his older brother, Clive, a math prodigy. When their father discovers the secret of Clive's homosexuality, the brothers' positions in the family are irrevocably reversed. Years later, William finds himself at the bedside of the dying Clive. Now it is his turn to acknowledge his own "half- hidden secret" -- that the inevitability of Clive's tragedy had taken root "deep in my own character, as the fleeting ghostly shape of a wish...
...students use their TF's accent as an excuse not to do their best work," D'Finisays. "Some students concentrate on the accent, not on the math...
...even The Crimson sometimes slips into Beavisism. A recent staff editorial on teaching fellows opened with an imitation of a math teacher with an East Asian accent (Carcurus....hunh hunh.....that's cool). A piece about the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice compared the organization's officers to characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" and spent a quarter of its length parodying typographical errors in the group's newsletter (hunh hunh.... 90210 is cool...
Grants that students proposed last night ran the gamut, from covering printing cost for the Harvard Math Bulletin to funding a plane ticket for a Harvard World Model United Nations participant...