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Such distrust runs both ways and is getting deeper. Unless the U.S., its allies and Iran can find a way to make diplomacy work, the whispers of blockades and minesweepers in the Persian Gulf may soon be drowned out by the cries of war. And if the U.S. has learned anything over the past five years, it's that war in the Middle East rarely goes according to plan...
...caged bird doesn't sing unless it has a microphone. B) Even when you're Maya Angelou, you do what Oprah wants. C) Howard Stern's dwindling audience has to go somewhere. D) She wants to talk trash about that know-nothing hussy Dr. Laura...
...schools slipped to worse designations, many actually improved in making adequte yearly progress when compared to the past. It is only because some schools did not make progress in areas where they have performed weakly in previous years—and because schools remain on the federal watch list unless they make adequate progress for two consecutive years—that this year’s classifications for the Cambridge schools were lower despite the uptick in the number of schools making adequate yearly progress...
...nostalgic bit: homework (a.k.a. busywork) assigned after each class. Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” promises to explain the inner workings of every little electronic gizmo in your house from telephones to CDs. This class is interesting and manageable (remember the days of group projects?), unless you’re bad at quantitative reasoning, in which case, no matter how well you kept up with the problem sets and the course notes (there is no textbook), the final will bite you in the ass. QR 20, “Computers and Computing?...
...come across people in the concentration who are very intense. They actually do all the reading, but most people get an A- or B+ anyways. Junior tutorials are supposed to prepare you for the thesis, but really, you’ll get no advising on your thesis unless you’re especially lucky or live in the Quad and visit Anya Bernstein often. Come second semester of junior year, you may be hard-pressed to find a thesis adviser. Generally you need to venture to other departments and compete with the students who are actually in them to fish...