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...courses have been essentially transplanted from the current Core program. History professor Ann M. Blair??s Historical Studies A-27: “Reason and Faith in the West” will count toward the “Culture and Belief” requirement, while Literature & Arts A-64: “American Literature and the American Environment,” to be taught by English professor Lawrence Buell in fall 2009, will fulfill the “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” requirement...
...Blair??s conversion has re-ignited the centuries old debate about repealing or amending the archaic and discriminatory Act of Settlement. However, few serious and responsible politicians support taking such action, not because of religious bigotry, but because of political considerations. While anti-Catholic laws and provisions have no place in modern democratic societies, much less a nation as multicultural and pluralistic as Britain, any amendment to the Act of Settlement will greatly exacerbate the fragile political and constitutional state that Britain is currently in and could conceivably result in the break-up of the United Kingdom...
...British prime minister has announced that he will resign on June 27. Ironically accused of both zealotry and servility, Blair has been a true leader to the British people, always acting on his beliefs. Unfortunately, public opinion has washed Blair??s approval rating—once a record high of 82 percent, now a low of 26 percent—out with the tide. But Blair has stuck to his beliefs, even when the public has grown impatient waiting for results, and history will remember him as a wise leader who tried to steer a reluctant populous onto...
Opponents complain that Blair??s partnership with Bush left Britain empty-handed. At the Conservative conference last October, Opposition leader David Cameron asserted, "We must be steadfast, not slavish, in how we approach the special relationship [with...
...Still, Blair??s foreign policy destroyed his popularity. His detractors dubbed him "Bush’s poodle" for his support of the U.S. mission in Iraq. But his critics are unduly cynical, missing that it was Blair??s belief that drove his policy, not vice versa—he supported the mission in Iraq not to please President Bush, but to confront the spread of terrorism. He has long advocated a greater role for Britain in international affairs: He sent British troops to Kosovo to stop ethnic genocide, he traveled to Sierra Leone to help...