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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Wilson, "Evolutionary Biology" departs most radically from Gen Ed because it teaches students how to assemble knowledge, not memorize the facts and principles accrued in an academic discipline. His course will develop this feature of the Core by "attempting to present one branch of science as a creative activity," he explains...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Professors Flesh Out the Core | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Reddy justified his move on the basis that it was the only way to bring in a government with a popular mandate. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had already informed him that she would not support Ram, and without the backing of her 71-member Congress Party branch, Ram would not have been able to form a government. Rarely before had India's parliamentary system been in such disarray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Constitutional Crisis | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...issue contains about ten stories-from exhaustive examinations of major public issues to sure-footed treks through the bureaucracy to thoughtful political analyses-ranging in length from 1,500 to 15,000 words. Although its purview includes all the works and pomps of Government, the Journal emphasizes the Executive Branch. By contrast, Congressional Quarterly, a crosstown rival of sorts, tends to look at Washington from the vantage point of Capitol Hill. The Journal has a relatively large staff of twelve full-time reporters and five contributing editors. With a generous two to three weeks to work on projects, they often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Capital Reading | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew calls "the most underreported branch of Government - the Judiciary." Says former Defendant Thomas of his new assignment: "The subject is not exactly unfamiliar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, is the gray eminence of Mass Hall. Steiner's job is to command Harvard's array of lawyers in their skirmishes with the local community, the federal government, and occasionally each other--different branches of the University sometime become entangled with each other, abetted by Harvard's "each tub on its own bottom" policy, which dictates sufficient. But Steiner also serves as Mass that each branch of the University be self-Hall's "eyes and ears;" during the South Africa protests, while Bok was swamped by students, he strolled unassailed among them...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Massachusetts Hall's Men in Gray | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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