Word: narrow
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Judge Lance Ito identified 311 potential jurors for the O.J. Simpson case today, completing the first round in the selection process. The next step: all 311 candidates get grilled by attorneys on both sides next month. The goal is to narrow the field down to 12 finalists and eight alternates for the trial, which will begin in earnest in November...
...reported on the flaws of Harvard's core curriculum: bored students in overcrowded and undersupplied sections, given inflated grades by undertrained, undermotivated teaching fellows. These sections supplement watered-down lectures by a growing roster of professors, who are frequently confused about how to teach "approaches to knowledge" in their narrow fields of specialization...
...wasn't long before objective observers began to realize that what Rosovsky had legislated was an educational blunder that far overshadowed the ultimate misfortune of General Education. The core quickly disintegrated into the same kind of "rifle shot" narrow courses within broad fields of learning that ruined General Education...
...awful fear is that if it (a reconciliation) did happen, how long would she be able to stay on the straight and narrow?" Maj. Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York, in his new book. The Galloping Major. He was referring to the prospects of his daughter's reuniting with her estranged husband, Prince Andrew...
Mahran knows that his own country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...