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...truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
...down to the last race, and I passed two boats near the end. It was kind of lucky.”“The regatta was extremely close,” Schlitz agreed. “It really came down to the wire.”Despite the somewhat lackluster performance, the weekend’s result was still a positive one.In addition to the team’s success, a few sailors picked up individual honors over the weekend. Porter, Johnson, and Kovacs joined Schlitz, captain Christina Dahlman, and sophomore Elyse Dolbec on the 2006 All-New England...
...addition, carving a concentration system out of electives, as Florida has proposed, subverts the supposed objective of making high school more interesting. Electives are, by definition, optional courses designed to sweeten high school’s somewhat bitter cake with a refreshing break from the usual grind. Replacing electives with an academically intensive major transforms these invigorating breaks into further academic hoops to jump through, making the overall educational experience less stimulating for many students...
...Barrie’s system—which can cost $1,000 to $10,000 per campus—it wouldn’t be the first time that an instructor here had used the Internet to catch cheaters.In 2002, a visiting professor, Benjamin O. Fordham, used a somewhat similar program, Eve2, to prevent plagiarism in his course, Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy.”But that doesn’t mean the rest of Harvard is ready to follow Fordham’s lead,TurnItDownGordon Harvey, the associate director of expository writing and author...
...Beausset, sewed hidden pockets in his clothes for money and other valuables.“I was terrified at the risks that he took,” she said.But Jennie De Beausset says that Kyle has made her more aware of the immigration issue and that he has become somewhat of a celebrity among Guatemalan workers.“It is really important that he brought this to light and that he takes this issue very seriously,” she says. “I think it’s really important that he did this as a Guatemalan...