Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best way to put it is that we will study the presidency past and present," he said...
...show will last all semester. With only two seven-to eight-page papers and a final, Government 1091: "Debating American Politics: Liberal Democracy Past and Present" means free front row seats for the political fight of the semester. There are no pre-requirements, making Gov 1091 the perfect chance to journey into Gov Jock territory for the uninitiated...
...past few years, then, the ever-present temptation toward sensationalistic news has taken on a new twist. Collaboration across various types of media (often known as "synergy") gives readers and viewers unprecedented access to information, but it also blurs the distinction between news and entertainment. The strict mores of the newsroom butt heads against the need to attract viewers and then to sell them the related products, regardless of whether they are fact or fiction...
...food and hourly update themselves on the news--are worth mention now as the international picture continues to look more threatening. With governmental woes stretching from the United States to Russia, much of Southeast Asia in revolt or under water and North Korea sending a little surprise birthday present Japan's way, perhaps professors in other parts of the world will also start sitting quietly after a loud backfire and listening for sirens. Living in the half-century of truly global war, and a decade of unprecedented terrorist attacks within the United States of both homegrown and imported evil...
That may soon change. This fall a report on the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS), commissioned by the National Science Foundation, will present a litany of unsettling findings on the quality of American public schooling compared with that of the rest of the world. One conclusion: the deficiency of America's average students is a major reason for the woeful U.S. performance in the TIMSS exams. Too many schools, the report says, "have sacrificed the attainments of more average students in an attempt to bolster the performance of better students." As a result, American eighth- and 12th-graders...