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...deserve careful consideration on a case-by-case basis as well.)By no means am I advocating that we preserve the existing Moral Reasoning requirement in its present configuration. Many of us are all too familiar with its limitations, but these structural inadequacies should not lead us to abandon its ideals altogether. We must design a new requirement—rigorous, pedagogically innovative (like the proposed General Education classes), and as engaging as possible. Certainly, there are several logistical obstacles we will need to overcome, but the tabula rasa that the Curricular Review process gives us is the perfect opportunity...
...abandon state-hospital site a few blocks from downtown Cambridge, Minn., New Urbanism has gone country. "People are building a neighborhood," says Father James Hahn, 70, a priest and new homeowner in the Heritage Greens development. The antisprawl design movement emphasizing small homes, spaced tightly in walkable communities, has budded in cities, suburbsand now small towns...
Will Trent Lott rise again? Back in 2002, the Mississippi Republican's career seemed over. At a birthday party for Strom Thurmond, Lott quipped that America would have been "better off" if the centenarian had won his 1948 segregationist bid for President. Lott apologized profusely but was forced to abandon his post as Senate majority leader. Since then, Lott, 64, has slowly regained stature--so much so that insiders think if he stays in the Senate, he will return to a leadership post. Lott tells TIME he "certainly will" consider running for a top G.O.P. job if he seeks...
...also uses local vocabularies, incomplete sentences and elliptical syntax that some readers may find annoying (helpfully, she appends a glossary of indigenous language terms). Get used to it. Among the blessings of apartheid's fall is a new willingness among South African writers to experiment, get funky and abandon worthy subjects altogether. That seems to be what J.M. Coetzee is attempting in The Slow Man, published in September. Paul Rayment, a successful photographer, is on the cusp of retirement when he loses a leg in a bicycle accident. Depressed in the prison of his apartment, he falls for his immigrant...
...Rove have imagined engineering a decades-long G.O.P. majority in America. But Republicans fret these days about losing the House or Senate in next year's midterm elections. So if Rove does head out, he may leave behind a wounded President who faces the prospect of having to abandon some of the pair's Texas-size dreams...