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...outdated argument. If we cut one, we might as well cut the other. Professors who overwhelm their students with copious amounts of reading are doing them a disservice. Balancing social and extracurricular commitments with a four- or five-course load is tough; engaging fruitfully with those courses is tougher. Certainly, undergrads should be prepared to work—and “work hard,” as Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson puts it. But they simply do not have the time or the stamina to read a total of 1,200 pages a week. Incidentally, Ferguson assigns...
However, the Tigers will provide a much tougher challenge for Harvard than Brown. In addition to leading the Ivy League in shots on goal per game at 38.6, the Tigers also boast the second best goals against average at just six per game...
...Some analysts have read the leak of hypothetical U.S. military planning on Iran as calculated to spook the Europeans, Russia and China into supporting tougher UN action. Whether or not it has that effect, diplomacy is clearly the only game in town - and both sides are busy trying to shape its outcome to their advantage...
...anyone win? Big Business is O.K. with the status quo. It preferred no deal to one that might impose tougher fines for hiring illegal immigrants...
...That’s something we’ve been really working on as a team,” Allard said. “Being tougher both defensively and on the mound, and coming right back once somebody gets on base, regardless of how they get on base, and really getting that next out, and we did a lot of that this weekend...