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...Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (some of which Judith Miller disseminated in the New York Times). He convinced certified hardfellahs like Vice President Dick Cheney that American troops would be greeted in Baghdad with flowers and candy. He was smooth as oil and wicked smart, with a math degree from M.I.T. More than a few Bush Administration officials hoped Chalabi would quickly take control in Baghdad after Saddam was deposed, and allow the U.S. to get out of Dodge within months...
Zakharevich is currently a Mathematics concentrator in the midst of writing her thesis. Once a joint math and computer science (C.S.) concentrator, she said she dropped C.S. because she could not find a suitable thesis topic. She said she had taken some programming-intensive courses at Harvard, and had also done a little programming in high school...
...radical elements of the Islamic world. Suppose they, on top of the materialism inherent in the doll, had her espouse all sorts of the craziest ideas one witnesses in the Middle East, only in the lingo of Barbie.So just as Talking Barbie might exclaim, “I hate math!” and appear trussed up in the most immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie...
...said Payne. For instance, the Verbal Reasoning section will seek to focus less on vocabulary and more on reading comprehension and analytical skills, both important in graduate work, according to Payne. The ETS will also replace many geometry questions with more “real-life”-type math problems on the Quantitative Reasoning section and shorten the Analytical Writing section by 15 minutes, according to the ETS website. Payne said the changes are the product of recommendations made by the GRE board, which is an external advisory board composed of deans of graduate schools from across the country...
Tribe wrote that his only previous experience teaching undergrads came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he served as Harvard’s debate coach. (Tribe won the National Debate Tournament as an undergrad math concentrator in 1961 and has been credited with pioneering the “flow” technique for tracking debate arguments...