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...many ways, undergraduate teaching can be more rewarding—often was more rewarding for me at Oxford than graduate teaching—because the mix of people you get in an undergraduate class is necessarily different from the mix of people you get once they’ve all selected their graduate options,” he says. “I always felt Oxford had it the wrong way around. We were teaching undergraduates as if they were graduates and graduates as if they were undergraduates...
...thought so in April. This time, the figure slipped to 48%, with 46% saying the war was wrong. Those shifts have lifted Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who now leads Bush by five points in matchups among likely voters, even when third-party candidate Ralph Nader is added to the mix. "Iraq," said a longtime Bush watcher, "is taking its toll...
...still remains - in the U.S., investors wanting to invest directly in a single hedge fund must have $1 million worth of assets, and $200,000 in annual income. They were designed to hedge against market movements, and thus while they mostly hold the same assets as traditional vehicles - a mix of bonds, stocks, cash and property - they use much more aggressive investment strategies, like short selling, where an investor seeks to benefit from declining market prices; derivatives, where an investor uses instruments derived from the price of an underlying financial asset; and arbitrage, where an investor tries to exploit price...
...Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, was dealmaking with a flock of U.S. distributors hoping to profit from the film's marketable notoriety. Fahrenheit 9/11 more than lived up to its advance rep. The film details, in Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamp on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that two days...
...this administration needs to learn that democracy doesn’t mix with a policy of secrecy. Secretary Rumsfeld withheld information from Congress and the American public and attempted to obstruct CBS from releasing the evidence in the first place. If Rumsfeld had his way, would the atrocities have ever come to light? Would those responsible ever be brought to justice? The whole world is now asking what else might be going on behind the gates of American detention centers...