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However, the procrastinator can take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...
...make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled "Thoughts on the Past and the Future," the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary's deep thoughts on his country and the 20th century as the millennium approaches. Although Columbia University Press is to publish an English-language edition in 1999, Gorby has little hope for redemption at home. The Russian-language run of "Thoughts" is embarrassingly small: just...
...side-effect of emphasizing explosions is that the plot suffers. Even movies which intend to ignite spirited debate about freedom and tolerance in American society end up being as profound as a Hallmark-Hall-of-Fame production. The Siege and American History X are as heavy-handed as a textbook for seventh-grade civics class...
...textbook is only used in the introductory two weeks of the course, so students can begin the semester with a chronological view of art through the ages...
...given that the players in the industry--from the Coop, to publishers and authors, to professors, to even the financial aid office--are either unable or unwilling to lessen the burden of textbook prices, using technology to give students more choice over what to read may be the only way to significantly lower the bill. --Sasha A. Haines-Stiles contributed to the reporting of this article...