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...what other sport can you take a crow-hop before tossing the ball, hustle your way out of a pickle, sharpen your skills with pepper, or get thrown out of the game for a rhubarb...
...School professor hopes student input into his Gen Ed course will sharpen and improve the advice he gives to professionals in the field of international negotiations...
...Eagles Sharpen Talons...
...spread of gambling across the U.S. is certain to sharpen the debate about its social effects and spur efforts to analyze its roots in human behavior. One explanation for its pervasiveness is offered by James Ritchie, executive director of the Gambling Commission. "There is in the breast of every person," he observes, "a desire to risk. It may be a desire to run for political office, or a desire by a farmer to plant wheat and see if the elements allow him to reap a crop, or a desire to buy stock or commodity futures. Or maybe it comes from...
Dean Rosovsky's move last week to sharpen the focus on teaching abilities in tenure decisions is laudable, if long overdue. His request that department chairmen include separate evaluations of teaching skills with ad hoc tenure recommendations suggests that perhaps teaching will become an important criterion for Harvard faculty. If teaching ability received as careful a scrutiny as research and publications in tenure decisions, the Harvard education--at least from the students' point of view--would improve immensely...