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...Republican Party has been a vehement bastion of economic freethinking for the past 25 years. This has been an extremely successful political strategy, and it rests on a basic truth: capitalism is the best way to create prosperity. But the strategy frays when taken to its extreme: the more untrammeled the capitalism, the greater the inequities. And with George W. Bush as freedom's ultimate exemplar, the G.O.P. has refused to acknowledge the new playing field-the severe dislocations and vexing security questions-created by a freewheeling global economy. But the Bush view has taken a serious...
...Network's website, foodtv.com features not only thousands of recipes from the likes of Bobby Flay, above, but plenty of quick video lessons too. Rachael Ray demonstrates a one-minute party punch, while Tyler Florence explains how to make a simple salad dressing in seconds. For beginners, there are basic lessons on subjects like chopping vegetables, cleaning shrimp and rolling dough. The site is free, but many of the videos are preceded by brief...
These surveys are cast as history courses because that is one straightforward way of imparting the progress and relationships that developed in each field. They would also provide a basic framework that would allow students some context for choosing more specialized courses...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 agrees that the basic mission of undergraduate education must be geared toward educating students rather than satisfying professors’ teaching desires. “Our students are our basic reason for being in business at all,” he wrote in an op-ed in The Crimson in 2003. “Strangely, the curriculum is determined almost entirely by what faculty feel comfortable teaching rather than by what students want to learn...
...Senior professors can shunt off the more tedious jobs, like teaching freshmen or grading papers, to low-caste graduate students or visiting lecturers,” Tierney wrote. “That’s why Summers had to push them to teach survey courses and other basics.” Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, responded to Tierney’s column by submitting an Op-Ed piece to the Times. So far, Ulrich said, the newspaper has declined to publish her piece because the Op-Ed page doesn’t run responses...