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...Anthony's calcified tongue and jaw. Just down the road lies the Prato della Valle, the so-called field with no grass that's now a vast piazza of fountains and statues. Think Place de la Concorde with a little more decor, minus the dizzying traffic. No one should skip the Scrovegni Chapel, the recently restored Giotto masterpiece. Make reservations ahead of time. In Padua, as in all of Italy, the preferred pastime is people-watching and caffeinating. There is no better temple to both than the elegant Caffè Pedrocchi, famously "doorless" because it operated without closing from...
There are many reasons why these incidents might not come before the full Ad Board. In some cases, survivors may not feel comfortable pressing disciplinary action against their assailants. Others may prefer to skip the campus judicial procedures and bring their charges in criminal court instead. In too many cases the reason students are reluctant to turn to the Ad Board for help is that the majority of them has no clear understanding of its policies. More importantly, students have little faith in the organization itself, and in many respects, they have little reason...
Musically, Elephant adheres to the band's simple formula. Meg plays drums, Jack sings over his alternately wailing and intimate guitar. There are a few bass chords and an organ thrown in, but it's minimalist rock with maximum thrust. Just skip the liner notes. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...require them to keep discussion moving in class, to grade students’ papers and exams, to hold weekly office hours and, of course, to attend all the same lectures and do all the same readings as the undergraduates. Except, of course, the TFs can’t routinely skip class or cut corners on the readings. And, by and large, they do a very good job fulfilling these requirements. Meanwhile, TFs also tend to have full graduate school requirements of their own. But the fact that TFs work far harder to make section run smoothly than many undergraduates recognize...
Luckily, no one needs a doctorate to separate honest skepticism from institutionalized dogma. Skip Evans, of the National Center for Science Education, worried that classroom discussions of evidence against evolution might “cast seeds of doubt in students’ minds...