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Students in Sociology 189, “Law and Social Movements,” might be checking over their papers a little more carefully than usual this year. That is, if they don’t want any academic misdemeanors to be detected by TurnItIn.com, a sophisticated online service designed to sniff out plagiarism. Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group is this year implementing a pilot scheme of the service. The possibility of a more expansive roll out looms, potentially giving way to a time when every student’s work would be subject to a thorough honesty...
...simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir to piece together, in 12 parts, a fictionalized chronicle of how her tough-minded clan got from the Ettrick Valley near...
...coach Katey Stone loves. “I like it—I think we have a very competitive schedule this year and I am looking forward to it,” she says. A quick examination of this year’s schedule reveals that most of the usual suspects are back on Harvard’s slate. But there are still a number of easy league games that may serve more as a chance to pad statistics and test young players than real competition. The Crimson will play Union, Quinnipiac, and Division-I newbie RPI twice?...
...elections, a new poll commissioned by TIME shows that Republicans may be approaching voting day without one of the big advantages they enjoyed in November 2004 - their ability to motivate supporters to go out and vote. Among registered Democrats polled, 52% say they're more enthusiastic about voting than usual, compared with just 39% of Republicans. Thirty-seven percent of Republican respondents are less enthusiastic than usual, while only 29% of Democrats feel that...
...economy came in second as a voting issue, with 29% of registered voters ranking it ?extremely important? and 50% ?very important. Terrorism was a close third, with 77% of those surveyed saying it was extremely or very important. Here, Republicans held their usual advantage. Forty-five percent of registered voters said Republicans would handle terrorism better than Democrats...