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...some of the students enrolled, a Core can be more challenging than their other courses because it's in a unfamiliar field," Clark writes in an e-mail message...
...description of the ethnic conflict submerging the island is dispassionate. Curiously, Ondaatje does not explicitly name the tri-faceted sides of the conflict. For one familiar with the ethnicities involved, this does not present much of a problem. But one imagines that the reader unfamiliar with this international landscape might have some trouble orienting the words Sinhalese and Tamil within the story...
...Harvard is shipped out west, the environment will hardly be unfamiliar to many of the players on the team. The Crimson's entire pitching staff and the majority of its position players are from California. With seven representatives, the softball team has just as many Californians as the women's hockey team has Canadians. Thus, a year-ending trip out west just might be more desirable than a trip to either Hofstra or Notre Dame...
...those unfamiliar with the bill, VAWA's major provisions are designed to extend the right to be free from gender-motivated violence by both criminalizing interstate acts of gender violence and making it possible to try such cases in federal civil courts. They have sparked a tempestuous debate among legal scholars as to whether or not Congress illicitly blurred the line between state and federal jurisdiction by improperly applying the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause...
...mathematics educators, the avant-garde reformers are the most energetic, and their voices drown out those skeptical of extreme reforms. On the other side, among academic mathematicians and scientists who have reflected on these questions, a clear majority oppose the new trends in math education. The academics, mostly unfamiliar with education issues, have been reluctant to join the debate. But finally, some of them are speaking...