Word: topicalism
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...think it was very balanced. He really tried to approach the topic without assigning any blame,” she said...
...undergraduates. And though several of the courses did experience extremely large enrollment changes—on the order of several hundred students—these extremely large fluctuations could frequently be explained by changes in teaching staff or some current event drawing undergraduates’ attention to the topic. For example, Afro-American Studies 10, “Introduction to Afro-American Studies,” dropped from an enrollment of 579 undergraduates to just 96 undergraduates between Fall 2001 and Fall 2002, a factor which might be explained by former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...
...speech he was still dissatisfied. "Watch and listen closely," he chided aides, "so you'll get this right." In a Kennesaw, Ga., high school gym, he delivered a skillful, largely ad-libbed 40-minute seminar on the virtues of his tax cuts as if he had been teaching the topic for 20 years down the hall. But almost no one heard it besides the rapt audience inside the gym. Terrorism alerts and the conflict with Iraq have consigned the President's domestic agenda to the back pages. "It's all war," he told a senior staff meeting last week. "Until...
Where Jackson’s guide touched on personal themes, Zaroulis’ stuck with the practical. Subjects included “choosing a topic, formulating a question, and directly answering the question,” she says. Rather than interviewing reluctant college administrators, she was able to talk to some of her own teachers at the Groton school...
...murdering a fellow activist (Laura Linney) in this issue movie from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...