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...papers (you see, the endowment would run out too quickly, since 47 percent of all students expect to receive A grades). But I simply cannot sit in silence when Freinberg claims that section participation is superfluous or that final exams are designed to prompt wholesale regurgitation of professors’ and TFs’ ideas. I cannot begin to describe the tedium of reading dozens of identical exam essays, all of them cribbed from a professor’s lecture notes; nor can I begin to describe the elation I feel at finding that rarest of student papers that takes...

Author: By Adam G Beaver, | Title: Sections Should Be A Place For Dynamic Discussion With Peers | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...deep-seated hatred of America among a section of Iraq's civilian population. Much was made of the Mogadishu comparison, the famous "Blackhawk Down" incident in which images of locals dancing over the corpse of a U.S. serviceman being dragged through the streets of the Somali capital helped prompt a U.S. withdrawal. And while nobody believes the Fallujah killings will have a similar effect, the echo was clear in the image U.S. personnel under attack from a community that they were ostensibly sent to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Killings in Fallujah Resonate with Americans | 4/2/2004 | See Source »

Democratic countries should not be suspicious of each other while sharing information on terrorist activities, and should be prompt in their responses to other countries’ requests. Of the 20 commissions Spain had sent to other countries seeking information about the March 11 explosions, he said that only three had returned...

Author: By Siddhartha Sinha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Judge Urges Unified Front Against Terror | 3/26/2004 | See Source »

...central goal of the course is to prompt debate about the social...

Author: By Zander D. Rafael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PETA Leader Returns to Class | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...rangers at Twin Falls, critics say Parks Australia, which last week was unwilling to comment, is not doing enough to keep the area safe. Kakadu, said N.T. Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion, "is not their personal fiefdom." It's unclear whether the Twin Falls saltie's capture would prompt a reconsideration of the ban. Nets were already in place, says Alderson, "and this croc still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing Off Kakadu | 3/23/2004 | See Source »

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