Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cartoon figure who divides her time between the country-club tennis pro and the hairdresser. But women like Lorna are often the difference between the guy who is stuck as vice president of human resources and the president. It's hard to feel sympathy for someone asked to scrape by on a mere $10 mil, but given her superior performance, shouldn't she share the spoils of reaching the top slot...
...Cambridge--it's life-long. But it may never be as intense as it can be here. The opportunities here for learning seemingly disparate fields such as Russian and computer science and for having both Hindu and Jewish friends are endless. But in many areas we really only scrape the surface, getting a glimpse of the vast subjects we know nothing about. The challenge we face here in this season of beginnings is to recognize these areas, and to start learning about them...
...curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...
...assault weapon or, worse, a bill to bring those hand cannons back to every suburbanite with a dandelion-free lawn to defend. Which is when you have to talk fast or else prepare to exit feet first, and just hope it doesn't take the undertaker too long to scrape the Brie smears off your mangled and purple throat...
...reasons why the Core Curriculum falls short is that it allows students to pass through the Harvard sieve without having attained this crucial education. At times, a student's career at Harvard is much like a Lewis Carrollesque free fall--all the student can do is try to scrape some knowledge off the wall as he drops. But chance more than anything else dictates what each student gets under his fingernails. Enter the proposal for a required course in "great books." Such an addition to Harvard's academic landscape would provide an essential component to any study in the liberal...