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...Democratic contenders who embody that ideal. Kerry? Gore? Hillary? Howard Dean?! Having gored Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have demonstrated that they don't tolerate "bipartisan patriotism" and will destroy any card carrier who evinces such an admirable trait. Vince Ziccardi San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Klein seems to argue that pseudo-Democrats like Joe Lieberman are what the party needs. Legislation should result from compromise, not lack of an opposing opinion. To say that espousing true Democratic ideals is a "bold move" akin to "extremism" shows how much the Democrats' positions have weakened owing to just the type of wishy-washy...
...primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence; academics further work mightily to expand a disease concept to include greater application of product; emoluments are funneled to favored physicians to perform pseudo-research “seeding studies” to introduce prescription momentum into communities, and finally, platoons of sales agents (90,000 currently) arrive with catered lunches in physicians’ offices, carrying loads of starter samples. There’s nothing surprising here. That?...
...about students. The BSC also likes to herald its 60+-year-old Course in Reading and Study Strategies (“the longest continuously running course at Harvard,” it boasts on its web site). The course is 14 sessions of speed-reading exercises and presentations on pseudo-topics such as “morality and reading.” Copious handouts are also given out, perhaps to compensate for the course’s $25 fee. The course isn’t as helpful as it’s cracked up to be, though it could...
...returned to teach a junior seminar (History of Science 90w, “The Atom Bomb in History and Culture”) and a freshman seminar (43q, “Historian and the Genes–From Mendel to Human Clones”). Students can enjoy his pseudo-British accent (à la Reverend Gomes) and bathe in his deep knowledge of all things Larry Summers.An efficient Italian with shocking dark curly hair, Mario Biagoli is on leave in the fall. So teaching Renaissance science is left to a visiting lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, Paolo Galluzzi...
...general, students who come to Science B expecting QR 34, “Counting People”-esque pseudo-science—in other words, a total gut that requires you to learn little to nothing–will be disappointed. What you’re getting instead is a warp-speed tour of one area of actual science. And unlike most cores, if you skip too many lectures or don’t do your reading scrupulously, you’re actually a little bit screwed. It’s almost like taking a real class...