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...present institutional structure of the Core stands apart from its purpose, which is to ensure that students are "broadly educated" and are introduced to "approaches of knowledge that the Faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." The Core fails on its own terms as well as by standards of liberal education. So it is unfortunate-no, it is inexcusable that the recent reform process undertaken by the Core Review Committee (CRC) and headed by University Professor Sidney Verba '53 has failed in its mission to reform the Core...
...problem would be selling de-alerting to the Russians. They are more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever because their conventional forces have fallen apart. And the weapons of mass destruction have a weightier meaning and symbolism to Russia today: they are the pillar on which a proud nation rests its claim to superpower status. With their army, navy and air force in disrepair, the Russian leaders are very unlikely to respond with smiles and nods to suggestions that they disable, even temporarily, their terrifying nuclear forces. Besides, no one is trying to persuade them...
...would also help compensate for a big Murdoch deal that seems to be falling apart: his joint venture with EchoStar to create a new satellite TV service called Sky. The service, announced with much fanfare in February, would beam 500 channels of digital programming to small home dishes. Because Murdoch's service would have the ability to deliver local over-the-air stations (which other satellite services cannot do), Sky could take significant numbers of customers away from cable. The prospect so alarmed rival media companies that they flooded Washington with lobbyists to try to stop Murdoch on regulatory grounds...
...fire, which broke out in late February, was not the station's finest hour--but it wasn't its worst, either. Lately, the 11-year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...
Truly influential people are very few and as much as centuries apart. They do not appear in annual batches of 25. WILLIAM R. SHIELDS Richmond, Virginia...