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...lack of official assessment of tutors makes it easy for students who truly need help to fall through the cracks. The advice of resident tutors, who usually have extensive experience in their fields and at Harvard, is invaluable—especially to sophomores, who are unfamiliar with the House and who may be struggling in a new concentration...
Fleck fans will enjoy the mixture of the familiar with an edge of strangeness and novelty. Those unfamiliar with Fleck will get an excellent taste of the band’s talent in a captivating listening experience that is utterly unlike anything elsewhere. For anyone bored with the radio-friendly sounds that are climbing the charts, this album is a must have...
...MIVIP is still a cumbersome and limited device. It hasn't given Marie her normal vision back. At best, it can help restore mobility by helping people avoid obstacles, recognize landmarks in unfamiliar environments and detect very simple shapes. "This is not true vision," Veraart stresses. "And it's definitely not a cure for blindness. It's something to help people better cope with their impairment. It's like a wheelchair: it doesn't help people walk again, but it does help them get around. As a technological solution, that's not bad at all." Marie agrees. She has undergone...
...addition to scoring at an impressive clip, averaging 16.3 points per game, Cserny has also become more comfortable on the court as she adjusted to her new team and a somewhat unfamiliar language...
...least [since October] is I still have no idea what I want to do. Maybe even less of an idea,” he says. He questions his desire to work a desk job, though he mangles the expression in a slightly comical way which suggests he might be unfamiliar with such non-conformist slogans: “I don’t even know if I want to sit in a desk for the next two years.” In a desk, at a desk, whatever—his sentiment is clear, and a little strange coming from...