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...diverse array of concentrations, as a distribution requirement would do, the Core restricts students to choosing among watered-down survey courses that barely scrape the surface of the intended subject material. Similar departmental courses with identical approaches to knowledge—exposure to which is the supposed aim of the Core—rarely count for Core credit. Students would be better served by a system in which they were exposed to more in-depth courses that better captivate the essence of a given subject area. Such an arrangement could only be reached by abolishing the stifling Core curriculum...
...real collaborative research among Faculty. A newer program, the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative begun by President Neil Rudenstine in 1993, was designed specifically to bridge the gap between disciplines studying questions related to the mind. The program’s website claims that, “we aim to bring the perspectives of the neurosciences into sustained, challenging dialogue with those of the social sciences and humanities. In an academic environment that tends towards increasing specialization, isolation and polarization of knowledge, we are piloting ways of navigating the disciplinary fault lines that interfere especially with communication between the natural...
...home, raise a child, and to be educated. Such a change would be drastic, but it does not have to be revolutionary. Imagine a shift in policy away from promoting growth that may raise the incomes of the poor slightly but ultimately increase inequality, to a policy that would aim to reduce rocketing housing costs. That would be development...
...film that, he said, convinced him Putin was aware that the state security service, or FSB, was behind the bomb attacks. "I am not saying Putin ordered the attacks," he told journalists at a London press conference. "I am saying that he knew such things were taking place." The aim had been to trigger a wave of outrage and allow Putin, who had been Prime Minister for less than a month, to show himself a man of action. Immediately after the blasts, the government announced that they were the work of Chechen terrorists. Days later Russia launched military operations against...
Giralt-Miracle says one aim of the year of conferences, exhibitions, school activities and open days - smaller shows are being negotiated for cities ranging from Berlin, Rome and London to Shanghai and Philadephia - is to go beyond the postcard image of Gaudí's best-known work, the incomplete Sagrada Família cathedral. (Its latest guesstimated finishing date is 2030.) "Today Gaudí is more popular than known, and we want to change that," says Giralt-Miracle. "He had his feet on the ground, but his imagination in the infinite, arriving at a time - the turn of the 19th...