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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with the rigid nature because having a good TF is really important," said Alissa S. Brotman '97, a student member of the CUE. "But in order to explain one confusion, I need a TF who attended lecture that...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: TFs May Be Forced To Attend Lectures | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...options were discussed at the meeting and both will be placed before the Faculty Council: a rigid rule requiring TFs to attend lectures and an accompanying proposal which would allow instructors to excuse TFs from lectures only under certain circumstances...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: TFs May Be Forced To Attend Lectures | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...proposition if it's going to help teaching. I like and support that," Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics Howard A. Stone said. "But a rigid rule--I don't see logistically how it would work. I'm troubled by a rigid requirement...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: TFs May Be Forced To Attend Lectures | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Arguments against the rigid rule focused on two reasons TFs miss lectures: class conflicts and enough familiarity with the material that hearing a lecture may be a waste of time...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: TFs May Be Forced To Attend Lectures | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Such conditions for intervention constitute a Platonic ideal. To the extent Weinberger's list is followed, it is a rigid rule book that would keep American troops out of almost everywhere. If it is applied loosely, however, it is simply a set of common-sense precautions any President would take if he could. Even Vietnam does not measure up badly on that scale. For years the war was popular, the U.S. had a clear goal in defending the South, it was convinced intervention was in the national interest and, with a ratio of about 20 North Vietnamese killed for each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: vVIETNAM: LESSONS FROM THE LOST WAR | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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