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After months of arduous debate, the Faculty decides that General Education is misnamed and passes a resolution calling for a "reexamination of the assumptions which underlie the program of Non-DEPARTMENTAL Education...
OCTOBER--After more months of arduous debate, the Faculty established a new program of non-DEPARTMENTAL Education at Rindge Tech. Astonished at the near-unanimous vote, Dean Ford decides that the conflict between the college and the departments has been resolved "fairly conclusively." Members of the Doty Committee resign in a huff and go as Peace Corps advisors to Peru, "where our ideas on General Education will be appreciated...
...that attached to him after Russia's brutal repression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. He largely succeeded. In addition to other forms of relaxation, including somewhat freer speech and more permissive economic planning, Kadar seemed inclined to ease up on the church. After 18 months of complex and arduous negotiations with the Vatican, he recently agreed to replenish Hungary's dwindling supply of Roman Catholic priests and permit freer practice of religion. But liberalization can go only...
...fundamentalist Buddhists stuck to Buddha's narrow, escapist but arduous path and came to be known, to their distaste, as the Hinayana, or "lesser chariot." They prefer the name Theravada, or "doctrine of the elders." The "greater chariot," or Mahayana, branch attempted to enlarge and socialize the Middle Way. Their Buddha became less the example who must be emulated, more the savior who had mystically improved the lot of all mankind. By giving nearly equal weight to concern for others and to withdrawal for the self, Mahayana provided a platform for political engagement as Theravada could...
...cuts would enable consumers in each country to buy the goods of other countries-cars, foods, watches-more cheaply, and would create a sort of "One World" of trade, encouraging both political and economic cooperation around the globe. Now Wyndham White and his staff of 130 experts face the arduous task of comparing and analyzing each country's list of exceptions before real negotiations can begin...