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...Undergraduate Council (UC) solidified its stance on the Harvard College Curricular Review at its meeting yesterday, with a vote to adopt as its official platform reports it has compiled on six of the review’s initiatives...
...Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach--the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with misleading answers. It would be a joy to see Paxman grill President Bush and others in his Administration...
...Togo's kleptocratic dictator for 38 years before his death in February; as President of Togo; in Togo's capital, Lom?. Gnassingb?'s election, in polls marred by violence that prompted more than 20,000 citizens to flee the tiny West African nation, has raised concerns that he will adopt his father's oppressive style of governance. Opposition leader Emmanuel Bob Akitani rejected the results, claiming the vote was rigged, and declared himself President. He promised last week that he and his supporters will "fight with [their] lives if necessary...
...What you do as an actor,” he says at one point, in the trance-like tone of voice that actors can’t help but adopt when talking about their craft, “even the very best of it, even in films, is over immediately. I can name ten things I did in the 1970s, and I was really proud of them, but you know what?” He pauses and laughs. “I bet you haven’t heard of a single one of them...
...models they could use—a completely free curriculum like Brown, a great books program à la Columbia, or a system of several large divisions from which students must sample courses like at Yale. But Harvard is not a clone of any other institution and should not adopt some other school’s system. Instead of looking outward, the committee should look at which courses work best here and build from those examples...