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...invaluable source of information for the sub-committees of the Advising and Counseling committee.” While community fellows and the Student Advisory Board’s peer advising sub-committee—which will be made up of PAFs—will continue to “tweak the present program,” this year’s big advising questions “come out of the faculty legislation on the shift in the time of concentration choice,” Rinere said. This legislation charged Rinere’s office with establishing a system...
...lost in the compromise on how the CIA may handle its alleged terrorist detainees, reached between the President and Senate mavericks John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Warner? It's hard to say, and lawmakers may still tweak the bill before it lands on Bush's desk. But here's a tally of what the President, Senators and detainees did--and did not--get last week. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] The President The Senators The Detainees What They Won The CIA can continue interrogating suspected terrorists in secret jails, with interrogators given legal...
...career. Second, administrators insist, control of the curriculum should rest only with tenured professors, the most accomplished scholars in a given field. This should largely continue to be the case. But in many fields, lecturers teach longstanding curricula—such as in introductory mathematics—or deftly tweak them to fit their own needs—such as in expository writing. After all, Harvard already allows preceptors to serve as primary instructors in the foreign languages, mathematics, and expository writing. There exists no plausible defense for not keeping the best ones around for as long as possible.A college...
...grass, slick fish, red-ripe coral, and moray eels back into the water. Bouncing porpoises caught the chum.But at 2 a.m. the machine that mixes oxygen into the water stopped pumping. The shrimp began to suffocate and turned white. Jacqui cursed. Chris scrambled under the deck to tweak the hot motor.They would lose everything, hundreds of dollars of pay. Rather than selling their catch to a dealer, they would have to give it away to local retirees and pig farmers. Jacqui popped the heads off the biggest shrimp as they twitched under her thumb...
TOBY KEITH WHITE TRASH WITH MONEY Like mostother country males, Keith invented a persona--the take-no-crap redneck instigator --and he's sticking to it. That doesn't mean he can't tweak it. His most accomplished record balances exuberantly stupid singles (Get Drunk and Be Somebody) with sensitive love songs (A Little Too Late). Under the guidance of co-producer Lari White, Keith's voice is surprisingly delicate, particularly on Ain't No Right Way, a nuanced defense of "black and white" thinking that also serves as a career summary...