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...technical or pre-professional school. The suggestion that we should avoid the heart of a liberal arts education merely because most students do not intend to remain in the academic world is ludicrous. Liberal arts education cannot simply be concerned with what is practical; if we begin going down that path, why not go the whole way and compose a Core Curriculum of accounting, carpentry, and “Empowering You?...

Author: By Alex N Chase-levenson | Title: A Bad Idea | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...embarrassing as it might be to begin again, this curriculum sorely needs to be shifted away from its heavy emphasis on the contemporary and practical to provide a broader, more fulfilling set of divisions. Now, if we just added a few more literature and arts courses, changed back “United States: Historical and Global Perspectives” and “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” to “Historical Studies,” and renamed “The Ethical Life” to something a little less preachy sounding...

Author: By Alex N Chase-levenson | Title: A Bad Idea | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...greedy at times—not with goals, but with possession of the puck in certain areas of the ice,” Stone added. Therefore, some of the most promising moments from a team standpoint were when Vaillancourt connected with her two linemates for a lethal combination. To begin the third quarter against the Engineers, Harvard came out on the power play and the trio made quick work of the RPI penalty kill. Just 18 seconds into the period, Vaillancourt gave the puck up top to Chu, who hit Brine down low on the right side with a pinpoint...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Sophomore Shines in Routs | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

Although classes did not begin until two years later and the College was not baptized until 1638, the date Harvard celebrates its origin is the day it got 400 pounds rather than the day it got its name...

Author: By Daniela Nemerenco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Quietly Turns 370 Years Old | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Peace talks had been scheduled to begin Monday between tribal elders, militants and the military in pursuit of an agreement on the lines of the one concluded in September with militants in North Waziristan, in which they pledged to stop cross-border activities and attacks on government forces in exchange for those forces withdrawing from the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Braces for a Backlash After Taliban Raid | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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