Word: pondered
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...WORKERS: Targeted more, relief groups ponder cuts...
Currently, however, Harvard does not require anyone to ponder Shakespeare’s truths, much less to read a word of his plays. Casting the rejection of standards as an enlightened educational revolution, the Core bureaucrats giddily proclaim: “The Core...does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” But there are some Great Books that citizens of Western society, in order to be educated men and women, really should read...
...kindergarten anymore. She was precise about what was expected from the kids--and from us. Nightly reading and math problems, spelling and handwriting homework due each Friday and a mix of other assignments to be turned in at the end of each month. I quickly began to ponder one tough math problem: If we get home from work at 6 p.m., and we set aside time for piano practice, dinner, bath, a dollop of casual chitchat and all that homework, how do we get our daughter to bed by 8 p.m. for a good night's sleep? Answer...
...more on fighting terrorism in Pakistan - where radical Islamists may be close to acquiring nuclear know-how - than in Iraq. ?I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue state of all the rogue states,? he writes. It?s a provocative thought for a conspiracy buff or anyone else to ponder...
...course, the biggest reason for many to feast at Dunkin’ Donuts may not be the muffins, but Good Will Hunting’s Matt Damon. Sitting at the corner table by the window, one can nibble their cruller and ponder: How do I like ’dem apples...