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...election spot shows a masked wrestler fighting drug traffickers and promising to crack down on cartels. Another ad vows to give the death penalty to kidnappers. A third pledges to hand out free medicine to the poor. But the campaign for Mexico's midterm elections that is getting the most media attention is promising nothing at all and urging people to vote for nobody...
...Sarkozy's rightist Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) claimed first place with 27.9% of the Euro vote. The result marks the first time a sitting French President's party has won a European election since 1979. That success in avoiding the traditional midterm European protest vote was all the more significant against Sarkozy's modest 43% approval rating, as well as polls indicating the public continues to frown on how he and his government have responded to the global financial crisis. Despite all that, ruling conservatives came within four points of Sarkozy's commanding 31.1% score during the first...
...time to develop new classes. Both committee members and professors emphasize that a wider variety of classes can count toward Gen Ed in contrast to the Core—either in terms of departmental alternatives or more novel courses.While Core courses were required to have a midterm and final exam and were not allowed to cap the class size at a small number, plans call for Gen Ed classes to take any number of shapes.To try to help fulfill Gen Ed’s innovative potential, the Gen Ed committee has directed professors to the Provost Fund for Instructional Technology...
...reading this blog post in an irrational, desperate attempt to avoid studying for your final—you may be feeling kind of down. You don’t recognize any of the terms on your study guide because you haven’t gone to lecture since the midterm. A semester’s worth of books, in pristine condition, tower around you in tall, menacing stacks. There are less than 24 hours until your exam begins and you realize—as the nonchalance of reading period crashes and burns around you—that you have learned...
...long as I’m not missing something huge, like a midterm or a huge deadline, I’m okay with it. If there is a case where I’ll miss a paper, I’ll get it done beforehand and then I’ll reward myself,” she said...