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Many professors refrain from broadcasting lectures on the Internet because of the fear that students will stop attending the lecture and replace the classroom experience with watching the lectures on the web. This is not a legitimate fear. The lectures broadcast on the web cannot compete with class for two reasons: First, lectures are broadcast three or four days after the class. Students interested in doing well on the Friday problem sets will want to attend the lectures that week...
Their cheers included the lines "Clap once for revolution, clap twice for opposition," and the refrain "We can rock the streets...
...songs included "O Rest Ye Gap Executives." The song--sung to the tune of "O Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"--featured the refrain "O tidings of Gap sweatshops and lies/dangerous lies/O tidings of Gap sweatshops and lies...
...Goodheart will refrain from offering his viewpoint on the search until the appropriate moment, Patrick predicts...
Although some Bush supporters fantasized about it last week, it's highly unlikely that the court would directly rule on any of the other legal matters related to the election--the contest, for instance, or the Seminole case. As a matter of course, the Justices refrain from ruling on issues not directly put to them. Even so, says law professor John Yoo of the University of California, Berkeley, "whenever the court does anything, it's a significant political event. What they say will have a ripple effect on all these other cases in the lower courts and the other branches...