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...numbers to grow but not grow to the point that it’s not possible,” Harrington said. “We retain a commitment to the personal touch and to the careful close one-to-one mentoring of students—that commitment remains unbroken...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Evolution of History of Science | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...question lingers: What drives this gaffeur from Milan to continue an unbroken series of comments guaranteed to offend someone? What, for example, was the Italian Prime Minister thinking three years ago when he credited his own "playboy" powers for persuading Finland's female prime minister to agree that a key European Union agency be accorded to Italy? And what prompted him to compare a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi prison guard, or to flash two fingers of the cuckold behind the head of the Spanish foreign minister during the family photo at a European summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Berlusconi Loves a Good Gaffe | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...letting the reader draw his own associations from the poetry. However, in poems like “The Clay Army,” he doesn’t add anything beyond the basic historical facts one could find in a textbook: “Some warriors are sculpted; in unbroken taijiquan stances. In the third pit, / royal commanders huddle with scrimmages / in broken heads...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Trick From Old ‘Warhorses’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...with Germany's commercial banks among the least profitable in the world and the power of state-owned banks still unbroken, it's unlikely that the barbarians will be crashing the gates for Postbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The German Merger Against the Odds | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...imagination has an earthly home, it is the American West. If it has a temple, it's Nevada. It's not just the low taxes or the libertine veneer of Las Vegas; Nevada is free, I was told, in part because so much of it is populated by an unbroken and unbowed caste of ranchers, miners and homesteaders who believe in the primacy of private property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libertarians: A (Not So) Lunatic Fringe | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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