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...that he sought to provide exposure to a different set of educational goals in his lectures, as opposed to what he called “proselytizing.” “I think my audiences were more interested in the big picture, what a liberal arts education can accomplish and the notion that education should have larger and more ambitious goals than professional training,” Lewis said. Lewis penned the 2006 book “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” a reflection on the purpose of college education...
...godfathers of the Bush plan - scholar Fred Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute, and retired four-star Army general Jack Keane - will admit that the 20,000 number is less than they called for. When asked by TIME last week how many troops would be the absolute minimum to accomplish the counterinsurgency goals, Kagan replied that it was the number cited in their proposal - which was at least...
...January, as you know, is a time when Faculty as well as students have a lot of to do that they are not able to accomplish when classes are in session,” historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “[The] FAS does indeed have important business to conduct this year, but the most important business also requires prior preparation...
...TIME: Eight hundred and eighty wins is an enormous milestone in any sport, let alone competitive men's NCAA basketball. And you have a few national championship rings. So what else is left for you to accomplish...
...Putin would not need to send troops to accomplish the expansion of his Russian Federation. Khalip and other observers believe that Putin is using the price hike to pressure Lukashenko to agree to make the Russian ruble the sole currency of Belarus. More importantly, Putin wants Lukashenko to stop dragging his feet on establishing the "Allied State of Russia and Belarus" - proclaimed in 1997 - and to sign the Constitutional Act in 2007 that could lead to the formal inclusion of Belarus into the Russian Federation. That would make Putin the first reunifier of the Slavic lands lost by the previous...