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...Cape Town. Many Iraqis still point to the years before the U.S. invasion, when Baghdad had a reputation for some of the safest streets in the Arab world. "In the eyes of the Americans and Europeans, maybe these statistics could be acceptable considering their crime rates," says Ra'ad Mahmoud, a 51-year-old computer technician and lifelong Baghdad resident. "But for us Iraqis, we never witnessed such crime rates in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s. We used to have an anti-crime squad. It was one of the most efficient in the Arab world. If there was a killing...
More than 1,000 players will descend on Denver on April 18 for the World Sport Stacking Association (WSSA) Championships, where Purugganan will be competing alongside another up-and-cupping celebrity: 14-year-old Luke Myers, who can be seen stacking in a TV ad urging kids to eat more eggs. (The kicker? The ding! of an egg timer, of course...
When describing exactly what he makes, Patrick cribs from a well-known ad campaign: "We don't make the products you buy. We make the products you buy better." Most yarn spinners, says Patrick, "will supply you with a list of yarns and say, 'Here's the prices.' We haven't tried to be everything to everybody in one market. We focus on partnering with our customers to engineer products and services to keep their product line innovative and profitable. Our approach is, 'Here are our capabilities. This is our expertise. Where can we be of assistance...
...Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element to the new Program for General Education that the plan was on hold due to the financial crisis...
...fields of study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing. The administration’s decision to frustrate efforts to incorporate Great Books into the undergraduate curriculum suggests that the school has decided against changing the Core in any meaningful way. Dispirited, the ad hoc committee that was considering the issue, led by forward-thinking Professors David Armitage and Marjorie Garber, will no longer even meet. By framing the debate around Gen Ed in fundamentally semantic terms (look above at the main fruits of a ponderously lengthy curricular review!), the faculty has forfeited...