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...site, secondaryfields.fas.harvard.edu, details 49 secondary fields of four to six half-courses now available in 27 departments.Across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, department heads were cautious in forecasting the impact of secondary fields. “No one was able to predict, or pretend to predict, what secondary fields would mean for large departments,” said Nancy L. Rosenblum, the chair of the Government Department, home to the second-largest concentration after economics. Part of the impetus for implementing secondary fields was to attract more students to smaller departments as secondary concentrators, according to Rosenblum. Some professors...
...days till February, only another month until the Oscar hype disappears overnight. Only a couple of months until we begin faintly to hear the first drumbeats for the big spring and summer releases. They'll mostly be pretty awful, too. But at least someone will believe in them. Or pretend...
...unfrozen my past so happily, I'm thinking about doing some poaching myself. Not with a thermometer but with the old swirl-the-vinegared-water technique my grandmother used. Then I'll pop the eggs on some asparagus, or a piece of salmon, and think about her. Or pretend to, while I really think about the salmon...
...Super Bowl. Even after his finest moment as a pro, throwing for 347 yds. in a 38-34 comeback win over the archrival New England Patriots in the game that will give Manning a chance to win the big one, the critics can't resist piling on. "Pretend he's the only reason Indy won," read a blog posting on the Sporting News website. "What a bunch of boobs. The only reason Indy won is because the defense stepped up." Another argued, "Peyton needs to win the next game, or it's a moot point...
...economy with good public services but an enterprise culture and all of that, and part of NATO and believe in strong defense. He's bought all of that, so it is a different world we're in. People want their politicians to live in the real world and not pretend there are divisions where there aren't any and so to operate in a more reasonable and sensible way. Now there are plenty of things we don't agree about. Between me and Gordon Brown, as I've said, there's a big division between his belief in state control...