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...nascent democracy could stand to get a kick in the head instead of a shot in the arm. Even before the flu emergency hit Mexico last week, the PRI was enjoying leads of as many as 10 points in polls asking voters which party they preferred in upcoming national midterm elections on July 5. President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), which vanquished the PRI in 2000 and again in 2006, but which is struggling now with a bloody drug war and an economic downturn, is second. The leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which came within a half-percentage...
...anomalies. Though the lecture, delivered by a professor ranked 4.3 in the CUE Guide, was a fairly interesting one, a good portion of the class looked up from their various screens only when a phrase was prefaced with the warning, “This might be on the midterm.” It looked like in this class, at least in this lecture, intellectualism was dead. But I don’t blame the people—I blame the technology...
When a successful class is defined by acquiring the minimum amount of necessary information in the minimum amount of time, then something is off. Lectures should be interesting, not just useful for the midterm, and when we budget our class time we give up on this basic intellectual ideal. The nuances that get cut with an economic approach to class time are what make the Harvard academic experience more than four years of test prep. When we drop them, we drop learning for its own sake, that clichéed goal that we laud but clearly do not internalize...
...many Harvard classes, students benefit from the chance to drop a dismal midterm or wayward problem set. Unfortunately for Crimson baseball, there is no such provision for a single devastating inning. Harvard (7-20, 5-3 Ivy League) allowed six runs in the second against Bryant University (24-9) in an 8-2 defeat yesterday during an otherwise even contest in Smithfield, R.I.The Crimson could not muster much of an offensive charge against Bulldogs senior starter Dan Lozeau, who strung together an effective 5.2 innings, yielding two earned runs on seven hits.“We had a few opportunities...
Break's over, folks. That pile of work you left laying around from midterm season never really went away, no matter how far your mind drifted away from it over break. FlyBy applauds you for taking the pain now...while all your friends find themselves scrambling for study guides late in reading period, you'll be loving yourself...