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...While we applaud the Staff for its strong commitment to student representation on the curriculum review committees that are currently being formed, we are dismayed at its well-intentioned but misguided proposal of popular election. As we have unfortunately learned from the Undergraduate Council presidential elections, these appeals to the student body at large do not foster any meaningful debate the issues. Instead, elections would force candidates to run on a “platform” before carefully examining the issues in committee. But even more fundamentally, these committees are deliberative bodies, and not places where representatives are sent...
...Each lecture was like a jewel in its crystalline clarity and precision,” Kondoleon said. “Students would applaud after each lecture, impressed by the elegance of the presentation...
...Plan for AIDS Relief (Real World, “Bush Delivers State of the Union Address,” Jan. 29). This five-year plan will seek to work with both private and public organizations in Africa and the Caribbean to educate, prevent and treat the AIDS virus. I applaud the president for this strong commitment to fighting AIDS overseas...
Estate planners would applaud Leiser and his rabbi. "Too many people think of estate planning in terms of preserving their assets," says estate attorney Les Kotzer of Toronto. "They should instead be focused on preserving the family." Like many other estate attorneys, Kotzer, co-author of The Family Fight: Planning to Avoid It, has seen his share of family squabbles because of something parents did--or didn't--do in their will...
...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...