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...school's success is owed in large part to its competency-based approach. Instead of requiring that students take specific courses or amass a certain number of credit hours--as most colleges do--WGU asks only that students demonstrate mastery of the subject matter via online exams or papers that could take a day or a decade, depending on the student...
...hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolańo is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides the book's true subject: the horrific serial rape and murder of hundreds of women in and around Santa Teresa...
...he’d been playing with his BlackBerry under the table. Suddenly, his attention was focused. Come on, I said. The Republican Club makes jokes about it. You must know that other students talk about you as someone who could be president. “I think the subject has probably come up before,” he said. There must be a reason, I told him. If you don’t want to be president, why does it keep coming up? “I’m trying to think of a funny answer...
...Students come to Harvard knowing that there is a subject called economics or electrical engineering,” he said. “No one comes to Harvard knowing there is a subject called history of science...
...obstructionist and more proactive in digitizing their material. Harvard University’s withdrawal is unfortunate but both understandable and expected. That said, as legal pressure from publishers continues to grow, Harvard can and should find other ways—beyond just allowing the scanning of books no longer subject to copyright laws—to aid Google’s digitization project. For example, Harvard should explore the possibility of allowing books that are published through its own publishing house to be scanned. Many important works, such as the Loeb Classical Library series, could be made available to Google...