Word: rarely
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There are some reliable exceptions, such as this editorial page, some study groups at the IOP, the extraordinary tutorial and the really rare Core section that may live up to its billing as a class about "approaches to knowledge." Yet they are few and far between and seem rather the exceptions that prove the rule...
...employees--whose work involves everything from transferring rare documents to microfilm to ordering and cataloguing recent materials--fear that moving off-campus will hurt the quality of their work and negatively impact the students and faculty they serve...
...virtues are best seen in relief to its vicious peers. New York's subway, at least, is similarly musical. The musicians inside the subway itself are rare--and rarely any good--but more important is the potential for a New York subway ride to become a veritable sing-along. There, one can actually "Take the A Train," and it's great fun to sing the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song while entering Brooklyn. The trouble, of course, is the bevy of thugs (meaner than Vinny Barbarino) and wayward youth who scare timid passengers, especially tourists, into silent submission. Nevertheless...
Then I tried to set up the system and entered AirPort hell--the Mac equivalent of spending the night on a plastic seat at J.F.K. The AirPort software made both the iBook and my brand-new iMac crash repeatedly. On the rare occasions they recognized the presence of the base station, both machines obstinately refused to connect...
...manager said this was a relatively rare "known issue"--code phrase for bug--that Apple will address in AirPort 2.0. I was wireless at last, but it had cost me a day's worth of headaches. This sort of thing happens with Windows all the time, of course. It only hurts with the ones you love...