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This year may also be just a little bit more special because Harvard graduates three of its top nine in June, including its Nos. 1 and 2, Ezra and Rishaad Bilimoria. A young team, and one that has actually seen defeat, takes its place...
...section leaders, but for very large courses, there will undoubtedly be a shortage of graduate students with a specialization in the relevant area. For example, French graduate students whose areas of specialization are not film become teaching fellows for Foreign Culture 21: "Cinema et culture francaise, de 1896 a nos jours." In such situations, section leaders become nothing but glorified discussion facilitators. This is a disservice to bright graduate and undergraduate students alike...
Washington insists that NATO "enlargement" (not expansion, which sounds pushy) will "remain on track" no matter how much it upsets Moscow. Still, Clinton offered Yeltsin a menu of sweeteners called the "three nos." NATO has "no intention, no plan and no reason" to deploy nuclear weapons in new member states. The same goes for combat troops. And Russia will be invited to sit in a joint council at NATO headquarters to talk about whatever the alliance...
...most compelling series of "nos" came during the exchanges about domestic violence. As Petrocelli wove for the jury a narrative of Simpson's life and times with Nicole, he hammered away at their tempestuous relationship--one that resulted in calls to police and a no-contest plea to spousal battery in 1989. With an enormous blow-up of Nicole's face, cut and purpled with bruises, looming on a huge screen behind the former football star, the lawyer quizzed him about numerous other incidents in which witnesses say Nicole was hit by her husband. And Petrocelli walked Simpson through some...
Thomas C. Conley is professor of romance languages and literatures and is currently teaching Foreign Cultures 21: "Cinema et culture francais, de 1923 a nos jours...