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...that, the only place to go is still The Coop at 1400 Mass Ave. With a monopolistic stranglehold on textbook-seekers, The Coop is Harvard's inefficient overly-corporate attempt to run a department store. Don't be deceived by the Coop's three stories of book offerings, and don't be lured in by promises of an ever-diminishing membership rebate. The Coop's selection is utterly unremarkable. Shopping there for anything but textbooks--when there are so many fine bookstores in the Square--is downright criminal...
...Navy and Air Force offer four-year scholarships to midshipmen and cadets, funding student tuition and textbook expenses and providing a $100 monthly allowance...
...Forum official, objects that such specificity would demoralize his party's weaker candidates. Not if you don't identify which seats you fear losing, Galen explains. "All candidates are optimists," he says. "They'll think they're the ones who are going to win." Kulin's response is a textbook example of culture gap. "This may hold true for Americans," he says, "but candidates in Hungary would assume that they would lose. The Hungarian people are not used to being winners...
...truths of physics are independent of which book you learn them from. However, some books emphasize and illuminate some topics better than others. Once, half-way through the semester, the professor accidently wrote a formula on the board in a notation that I recognized as peculiar to a certain textbook...
...carbon-copy students. With its long history of local autonomy, the U.S. is unlikely ever to adopt such a system formally. Still, even traditionalists concede that the U.S. has a de facto common curriculum, driven largely by widely used standardized exams and the homogenized fare dished up by textbook publishers...