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According to Shirley X. Dong—a second year graduate student in organismic and evolutionary biology who has served as a TF for Math 19a, “Modeling and Differential Equations for the Life Sciences”—graduate TFs, who deal with more conceptual-based teaching, do not have much interaction with...
What are the qualities demanded of a leader? Wisdom? Integrity? Experience? Perhaps. But what really counts may be pubbability - an elusive X factor that makes voters want to share a pint with a politician. And on that front, Gordon Brown - the 56-year-old Scot who is expected to replace Tony Blair as Britain's Prime Minister this summer - has a problem...
Remember the supernova, that great burst of sky violence that was supposed to be the finest pyrotechnics show the heavens could offer? Forget it. NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and several ground-based optical telescopes have just witnessed a cosmic blast that makes the supernova look like a popgun...
Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
Shocker: Kanye West, as an adolescent, liked porn. His mother will reveal as much in an upcoming book that the NEW YORK POST has giddily excerpted: "I'll never forget the day he took the X-rated magazine to school [and] was passing it around for the other boys to see, and the teacher caught him." SCORE...