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Frankly, says Gordon C. Harvey, Director of the Expository Writing Program, I dont have the faintest idea what preceptor means. Harvey, contemplating the words Latin root, posits that it might refer to hitting people over the head with a pointed stick. Internal Expository angst aside, he explains that preceptor falls under a different category at Harvard than lecturer. Preceptors teach skill-based subjects such as math, music and language. They, according to Harvey, are in a slightly differently category than people who teach content-based curriculum, such as lecturers in History and Literature. The worlds authority on words, the Oxford...
...support for the anti-Soviet mujahedeen during the 1980s, this is not a mercy mission. Back then, supporting the mujahedeen was simply a way of weakening America's Cold War enemy; the purpose of the current war is to destroy the anti-American terrorist infrastructure that had taken root in Afghanistan. This time, however, the U.S. would do well to avoid simply walking away from Afghanistan, as tempting as that option may become once Al Qaeda's infrastructure there has been destroyed and the complexities of Afghan politics defy easy solutions...
...seemed too good to be true. The Crimson was simply too perfect. Just as I was learning to root...
...while I thought all white poets were dead. The only poetry book I had that included some living poets was an anthology called The Black Poets, edited by a man named Dudley Randall. I read that book cover to cover and dog-eared it. I let it take root inside me and grow, as George Steiner would say. Those poets, from Paul Lawrence Dunbar up through Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker and Margaret Danner, they were my first influence, even before I was writing. It took me a long time to learn how to read...
...again, we are forced to look within our own nation and to our own actions in order to root out any hypocrisy that may weaken our international position...