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...Hundred Horizons” may take a different tack in examining history, but it most certainly follows the traditional stylistic tenants of historical writing. It is not a page-turner. This book is for someone with abundant time and a keen interest in the subject...
...Given the popularity of the minimum wage proposals, opponents have been trying out novel strategies. In Ohio the latest tack has been to argue that the the fine print in the state's ballot initiative represents a threat to employer and employee privacy. A group called Ohioans to Protect Personal Privacy (OTPPP) has placed ads to that effect, urging voters to reject the initiative because they claim it would enable nearly anyone to access employees' job records without their permission. But Peter P. Swire, a law professor at the Ohio State University and former Chief Counselor for Privacy...
...nasty desire to degrade and humiliate female characters. This is combined with a truly tasteless eye for settings and d?cor, a staggering ignorance of nuance in performance and an apparent belief that the business of art is to repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus, hopelessly enthralled and self-endangered by her obsession, yet somehow finding in her art the means of controlling it-at least for a time. Shainberg...
...rather than take the next logical step and allow students to take more specific “knowledge-based” departmental classes instead of vague Core classes, the committee has opted for the opposite tack. The report sets out eight areas of general education with even vaguer titles than our current Core divisions, apparently favoring interdisciplinary superficiality over depth and coherence...
...zone, sophomore forward Jimmy Fraser was there for the takeaway, sending the puck into the right side of the net at 9:34 for a 1-0 Crimson advantage.From that point on, however, it was almost all Big Green. Dartmouth would tie the score before the period ended, then tack on four second-period goals to put the game out of reach. “It just took the wind out of our sails,” Reese said. “The intensity was there, but we just played like individuals, and we really didn?...