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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...counting departmental courses for general education credit. But McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 expressed concern that too many departmental courses would be used to satisfy general education requirements.“I think we’re sort of buying a pig in a poke here,” Lewis said, suggesting that the Faculty was accepting the proposal without a full understanding of its basis. “If people are imagining that 9 out of 10 courses will fit somewhere, then this entire curriculum is reduced to distributive requirements...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Core's End Moves Forward | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...quarter," it was at least 30 ft. long by 18 ft. wide and appears to have been built using a mud-and-stud technique that was popular in Lincolnshire, England, during the early 17th century. In one corner of its cellar the archaeologists found a butchered turtle shell and pig bones, as well as an Indian cooking pot with traces of turtle bone inside. Nearby were a Venetian trade bead, a sheathed dagger and a musketeer's kit bag. As a result, Kelso surmises that an Indian woman may have cooked for the inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Archaeology: Eureka! | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...last anecdote, the guinea pig junkie story was quite good, particularly since this happened to be the first article the reporter wrote for the Crimson...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Anecdotes in Context | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...mind, the story was as equally puzzling—and indeed funny—as the guinea pig story. Here again, The Crimson seems to have found an interesting story but has left the reader scratching her head. After a little additional reporting, I can provide some of that context...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Anecdotes in Context | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...boys won't recognize me. I am fat as a pig now. In comparison to them, though, I look swell. I am not bald," jokes around 53-year-old toolmaker Oldrich Loukota, whose graying mane falls all the way down his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Night, Dissidents Rekindle Their Fire | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

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