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...came as a surprise to learn from the the front-page story “E-Hotline Opened for TF Concerns” (news, Feb. 14) and the accompanying op-ed “Better Teaching, an E-Mail Away” (Feb. 14) that the Bok Center is “partnering” with the Undergraduate Council (UC) to monitor Teaching Fellow performance. We have not, in fact, signed on to the “E-Hotline” in question...
DIED. Anna Nicole Smith, 39, former Playboy model, widow of an octogenarian tycoon, mother of a newborn, and tabloid celebrity; of unknown causes, after collapsing in her hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. (see page...
...credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into...
...announcement, Franken borrowed a page from fellow Democrat Barack H. Obama, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, by placing a video on his Web site in which he spoke about his family and explained his reasons for running...
...important too, of course, as many others have pointed out already, that we teach our students enough economics to read the business page, enough science to read the Science Times, and enough sense of irony to be able to get the jokes in the New Yorker. But when we do this we must be sure to keep it in the context of the overall purpose of a general education: to give students the tools for thinking seriously about what they should aspire to in attempting to live the best life possible for them. If we do this we will retain...