Word: methods
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...broadcast network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), that Sánchez and other students first decided to push back at what they called Chávez's increasingly autocratic leadership. Sánchez helped lead thousands of student protesters into the streets, their hands painted white to symbolize nonviolence. That traditional method of expressing discontent was combined with decidedly 21st century ones, as the activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than the militant student mobilizations of Latin America's past. "We believe in a civic, peaceful...
...brilliant mathematician, University of California professor David Gale was so passionate about math that he dreamed of creating an interactive museum dedicated to the subject. But he is best known for the matching algorithm he created with colleague Lloyd Shapley that was first applied to romantic pairs: an elegant method to determine couples in which both partners prefer each other to other members of a group. Among several applications, the algorithm has since been used to match students to high schools and helped establish the protocol still used to assign new doctors to hospital-residency programs...
...most troubling of these recent developments has been the prohibition of transfers: Not only was the transition dreadfully mishandled, but it represents a fundamental misunderstanding amongst University leadership of the practical realities of student life—one still larger than Gavin DeGraw, and one that Method Man’s arrival likely will not solve...
...Tang is not without Harvard ties. Group member Method Man starred in the 2001 film “How High,” in which Method Man and his fellow rapper Red Man smoke marijuana to ace a college entrance exam and end up at Harvard...
...group has maintained its original membership since 1993 (U-God, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, GZA/Genius, and Ghostface) minus the notable absence of Ol’ Dirty Bastard who died...