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...York Police Department, who have laid down a security cordon around the Waldorf-Astoria and other midtown hotels, and manned (or womaned) it, by and large, with great good humor. Demonstrators - followers of Falun Gong have been the most prominent - have been segregated across the street, squashed into a narrow area behind barricades. The main demonstration, on Saturday, went off remarkably quietly, as the marchers were kept well away from the delegates; I had no idea that the NYPD had so many police horses...
...France plane, Blanc narrowly missed being shot when the terrorists sprayed his jet with gunfire. Last Sept. 11, Blanc left his New York hotel seconds before the first jet plowed into the nearby World Trade Center. He hopes his good fortune in 2002 will mean renewed triumph, and not narrow misses...
...proposal has caused a split amongst faculty on the CUE. Many feel that the reduction may weaken the Core’s ability to achieve its central goal of exposing students to multiple disciplines. However, allowing departments to choose one additional Core exemption for its concentrators will not significantly narrow students’ academic experience; most departments touch on more than three of the broad Core areas anyway...
...receiving core credit for electives that seemingly fit into one of the mandated eight areas. As a required non-concentration requirement, Core classes often have large enrollments detrimentally matched with limited offerings; students habitually suffer from a lack of personal attention in a class they picked from a narrow choice...
...result of grade inflation, the authors argue, is that professors use a narrow range of grades and consequently do not give students accurate feedback about the quality of their work...