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...reading for the eight week class was about three weeks’ worth of reading from A-12, and there were no papers or even take-home section assignments. But here’s the best part: the grades in that class were based almost entirely on a midterm and a final, composed of matching, multiple choice, and short-answer questions, all of which the professor—an assistant professor of government at Bentley College—handed out to students in advance...
Follow the Elections Online with the midterm-election season upon us, TIME.com has joined forces with its partners at CNN.com and AOL to offer breaking news, useful candidate-evaluation tools and timely political analysis every day. You will also find concise backgrounders on politicians in key races and a search engine to locate the candidates up for election in your area. For a dash of historical perspective, browse through our gallery of presidential covers, from George Washington to George Bush (No. 41 and No. 43 both included). All at time.com/2002/elections...
...hard enough to organize a pre-emptive war with midterm elections looming and the stock market swooning and close allies refusing to participate. So the first-strike hard-liners in the Bush Administration must have found it hard to swallow when Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking on a video conference call with the vacationing President in Texas last month, argued for the need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options...
...seismic shift in U.S. strategic doctrine is shaping up instead to be a street scuffle about the exact wording of a resolution that sanctions attacking Iraq, with a few kicks and punches tossed in about whether the Republicans are talking up war in order to score well in the midterm elections. The Senate is expected to begin considering a resolution this week authorizing Bush to use force to disarm Saddam Hussein; both chambers could vote as early as next week. The question is not whether Bush will win, but by how much: with a weaker resolution and a big majority...
...Midterm: Let’s see these monkeys smoke chronic...