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...allowing students to rate classes overall first before they evaluate secondary areas like difficulty and homework. We hope that increased flexibility will also lead to at least one other format change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give professors ones or twos. An extended scale from 1-7 would better enable students to distinguish between excellent and mediocre instructors. Free from the inertia of printing costs and their associated logistics, we expect that CUE evaluations will improve at an accelerated rate...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: CUE On the Line | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...issues that face the world certainly span the boundaries that have traditionally existed here,” Ellwood said, adding that he has made cooperation with other Harvard schools “one of my priorities” during the first 10 months of his deanship...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Receives $15M Donation | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...hundred and sixty years of hauling landfill from mountainsides and construction dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong with a harbor that, between the Central business district and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side, is now just about 1 km wide?shorter than the span of New York's George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Visitors to Hong Kong who arrive in town expecting an easily accessible, vibrant waterfront like the ones in Sydney or Baltimore are in for a rude surprise: most of Hong Kong's shoreline is inaccessibly hidden behind skyscrapers, parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Lose a Harbor | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...Berlusconi quit, but quickly formed a new government by reshuffling his Cabinet. He appointed former Treasury Minister and Berlusconi loyalist Giulio Tremonti as deputy PM in place of UDC chief Marco Follini, who has distanced himself from the floundering leader. The Prime Minister had enjoyed the longest uninterrupted span in power since World War II, but his popularity has taken a hit and now he will struggle to make badly needed economic reforms before the next elections, which must be held by May 2006. The touchiest issue within the coalition is a proposed change to the constitution to give more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waving or drowning? | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...mystery seemed solved when I placed the disc in my “now playing” stack, right above Mice Parade’s “Bem-Vinda Vontande.” I had come to possess, in the span of only a few days, no less than two albums by bands that had forgone the traditional route of titling their albums in English...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Music: Mice Parade | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

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