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Assistant Professor of Medicine Steven L. Rabinowe, who leads an endocrinology tutorial, says that tutors act as "curbstones" in discussions to keep students thinking between correct lines. "Students generate their own discussion. We are also here to correct mistaken assumptions," he says...
Throughout the discussion, the tutor only interjects when directly asked a question by a student or when it seems that students have a mistaken assumption that is leading them astray. The tutor is often a leading expert in his field and can offer information on the most current research, some of which he may have written...
...Students Against War in the Middle East think that Texaco executives and American automobile owners are the only people who owe their livelhood to the flow of oil, they are tragically mistaken. Every dollar added to the price of oil means billions of dollars of foreign exchange lost by oil-importing Third World nations and the struggling democracies of Eastern Europe. Oil can only be purchased in hard currency, a frightfully scarce resource in all of these countries...
...small detail. By the time the twins were arrested three days after the incident, both had short haircuts. Storton still insists it was Jonathan. But one of the defense attorneys, Chris Carroll, predicts that "there will be substantial evidence submitted at the trial to show that the officer was mistaken about the identity of the biter...
...classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves in a school year (though the midpoint of each is "long leave," since half-halves could be mistaken for quarters...