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Shopping period was saved for a reason: to permit shopping. A system in which professors skip over the details of the course will make it even harder to catch up if you miss the first session, but, even worse, risks allowing professors to become disorganized and complacent about course administrivia. Pedagogy includes not just what the course is about and why one should take it, but also how the course is structured, its methodology—yes, even the “due dates for papers...
...knew about the carnage that was happening under his watch. In a 1967 memo to President Lyndon B. Johnson, he betrayed his discomfiture with his own policy recommendations when he said “there may be a limit beyond which…much of the world may not permit us to go.” With chilling understatement, he continued: “The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny, backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly...
...most recent came in 1992, when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify a measure barring Congress from enacting any pay raises for itself that would take effect before the next general election--an idea first introduced in 1789. Oft-proposed amendments to require a balanced budget, permit prayer in public schools and ban flag burning have never made it out of Congress. The Equal Rights Amendment, which was meant to invalidate state and federal laws that discriminate against women, did emerge from Washington, only to grind to a halt in state legislatures in a process that took 10 years...
When the Soviet government began to permit emigration in the 1970s, Schiller and his family decided to come to the United States. The real reason, he emphasizes, was to provide a better education for his children, who were five and 17 at the time—but the chance to see Italy didn’t hurt...
...Mathews, who said the city repeatedly denied his requests for a protest permit, said the protesters were misled by police...