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...time with pleasantries and have hit the ground running. The UC opened a promised teaching hotline where students can e-mail concerns about their teaching fellows (TFs) one week after Petersen’s inauguration . Crimson Reading, a Web site co-founded by Hadfield that allows students to compare textbook prices, has been adopted by the UC, updated for the spring semester classes and now lists over 95 percent of spring textbooks. Despite respective objections from some faculty members and the coop the UC has had a rather promising first two weeks.The rest of the term will, if all goes...
...believe that my being the textbook author was one reason the department turned to me when [Baker Professor of Economics] Martin Feldstein stepped down from his role as course head. So, while the professor chooses the book, in this case, to some degree, the book determined the professor,” Mankiw wrote in an e-mail...
...important turning point…through Hawthornes’ eyes and then through Emerson’s or Louisa May Alcott’s before it is finally completely described.” The actual effect is something akin to dozing off over your chem textbook and reading the same page about 20 times. That’s not to say that Cheever’s work is completely devoid of content. From time to time she makes insightful connections between the authors’ journalized experiences and their literary achievements. For instance, the parallels she suggests between Fuller?...
...Before there was a superhero, there had to be a hero. In the early '30s that was Dick Tracy, Chester Gould's city cop with an FBI agent's love of forensics and gadgetry (the Crimestopper's Textbook instructed kids on how to catch bad guys). What's striking today about the strip is its sanctified sadomasochism. No question, Tracy could dish it out, as in this sequence from 1947: "Like a whip, a piece of chain flies through the air - a chain attached to Tracy's cane handle. AGAIN AND AGAIN, the chain slashes! Tiny pieces of glass...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) operation aimed at providing students with cheaper textbooks suffered a setback when Harvard Coop officials asked UC representatives to leave the floor where they were collecting information on textbooks. Tuesday’s incident, however, did not prevent the student-run Web site crimsonreading.org from going live this week. The site, known as Crimson Reading, allows prospective buyers to compare textbook prices online. ISBN numbers are the ten-digit numbers attached to each book to serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running...