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The 290 colleges that have adopted extra-curricular common readings have, with only a handful of exceptions, settled for pretty lightweight reading.
Racism is probably the most commonly touched chord in the common readings.
Of course, there are great works of literature such as Othello that might serve to introduce students to that, but the emphasis in the common readings is on indicting contemporary society, not on discerning an age-old affliction.
Common readings are a chance to introduce students to the larger conversations of our civilization.
We'd prefer to see colleges and universities adopt core curricula of some sort, but common readings are a start.
Despite our reservations on the way these programs have worked out so far, we believe that common readings should continue.
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They do not have to cop to worrying about his sexual orientation or his microscopic common sense readings.
Certain errors are common to readings of Borowski; one, committed even by such attentive readers as Neal Ascherson and Tony Judt, is to describe his stories as memoirs.
The WHO included the two most common pollutant readings — fine particulates, smaller than 2.5 micrometers, and coarser particles up to 10 micrometers, or about a tenth the width of a typical human hair.
Cornwall has very little in common with Reading.
Put together, the available evidence does not show any deficits in dyslexic brain connectivity common to reading-related tasks and the resting state.
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