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Regarding the political correctness of the Expos program, Mansfield's charge may hold a bit more water. It is true that many of the course offerings do not have the strongest reading lists, and a surprising number do focus on questions of culture and identity. Still, the program has other, bigger flaws--namely, the less-than-stellar instruction...
...applaud you for gracing your cover with a woman who is one of the strongest and most courageous spiritual leaders of our time." BARBARA VAN GORDER Washington...
...Tigers sport a deceiving Ivy League record. While they trail Harvard in the standings, their only two losses have come at the hands (the feet) of Dartmouth and Brown, both unbeaten and by far the strongest two teams in the league...
Some of the strongest doubts about Gardner's evidence were expressed in Frames of Mind by Gardner himself. "The most I can hope to accomplish here is to provide a feeling for each specific intelligence," he wrote. "I am painfully aware that a convincing case for each candidate intelligence remains the task of other days and other volumes." And at the very end of the book, he warned that his work "needs to be amply discussed and tested" in the fields of biology and cognitive science before it is put into practice. "We are not yet certain," he said...
...historically, verbal and math skills may be stronger predictors of job performance than he allows, and employers seem to be placing a higher and higher premium on them. Then there is the problem of superficiality. How deeply can a student comprehend a given topic by relying on his strongest intelligence? Using his hands, Dave may be able to learn about the boats of the settlers, but can a kinesthetic approach help him understand central historical issues, like the reasons the Europeans came to America in the first place...