Word: maths
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Recent elections had obliged by actually being close. But this time, the pundits had to speak in a subtle code, saying what they knew without saying what they knew. "Everybody check my math," Keith Olbermann asked the MSNBC panel, defying them to say which state could get McCain to 270 electoral votes. Liberal bastion California? Obama's home state, Hawaii? "You have a jeweler's eye," Chris Matthews told him slyly...
...source of tension is that the media run so fast while politics moves so slow. By February, political observers doing the math saw where the Democratic primary was going--but it would take three months to get there. So the media revved their engines like a car in neutral: SexismRacismWrightBillaryBitterBowlingBosnia! While Hillary Clinton and Obama won their expected states with the precision of a German train schedule, the 24-minute news cycle played each victory as: Comeback! Counter-comeback! Counter-counter-comeback...
...Legislative Director of the Harvard College Democrats, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Elise X. Liu ’11 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. William Weingarten ’11 is an applied math concentrator in Mather House. Liu and Weingarten are members-at-large of the Harvard College Democrats...
...Deborah Sercombe, principal at the Amigos School, which has met its target in math and received high performance ratings in English, admits that teachers have to be very careful about how time is allocated among academic learning, art classes, music training, and physical education...
...Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom had turned out to be John Forbes Nash, inventor of the Nash equilibrium, I prefer complex math problems to mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie, thank you very much. Let’s see what Cornell’s got: “If a virgin crosses the Arts Quad at midnight, the statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White will...