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...responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century,” students graduating before 2013 are left to wonder: are we receiving—gasp—a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale” behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current system? In short, yes. The Core Curriculum so poorly represents the ideal of general education that the community has no need for it. Unconstrained by the etiquette of a faculty post, we can say that the Core...
...while still granting the Core the immediate funeral it deserves, calls for a temporary suspension of general course requirements. While this suspension might seem to strike a blow against broad education, it is worth remembering that the current program actually stifles many Harvard students’ personal quests for breadth. The faculty must agree it is bizarre that the current system, supposedly meant to acquaint students with various disciplines, ignores courses such as Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology” and History 20a, “Western Intellectual History.” Expanding the list of accepted...
...historian is somewhere in between, between the social sciences and the humanities, and it gives someone a breadth of understanding,” Verba says...
...here as you are sort of rejiggering your team? Well, I really am facing the reality that despite the fact that it's been very costly to run this national campaign for a year, we didn't have enough people and we didn't have enough, you know, the breadth and depth to be able to cover all this ground that we have to cover. You know, just thinking about going from New York to California in three and a half weeks is [laughs] pretty daunting. So I'm thrilled to have so many of my long-time friends, people...
...generating profits, given the $1.2 billion Rhys estimates it put into the company. Rolls won't budge Beemer's bottom line, given the parent company's $65 billion in sales. But owning Rolls-Royce gives BMW prestige and bragging rights. It proves it can sell cars that sweep the breadth of the market, from budget to budget-busting. Should the world's economy sputter and car sales drop off a cliff, "Rolls-Royce would probably be the first thing to go," Rhys says. But for now, like that iconic spirit of ecstasy that makes up its hood ornament, Rolls-Royce...