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...been mentioned as a potential candidate to replace outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby.After Skocpol’s speech, Kirby opened a scheduled discussion of the proposed general education requirements that would replace the Core Curriculum. A curricular review panel has proposed a set of broad distribution requirements to succeed the Core, but the plan has yet to garner a Faculty consensus.“If this were easy, we would be done by now,” Kirby said at the beginning of his remarks. He emphasized that the Core, established in 1978, needs to change...
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...With the June 1 start of the 2006 hurricane season looming, Nagin and emergency officials outlined a broad plan on Tuesday to evacuate and secure the city if another major storm threatens. Citing the hard lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina, when residents and tourists were stranded in the city for nearly a week after the August 29 landfall, Nagin vowed to make better use of city and federal resources next time around. Along with mobilizing the city?s transit system to evacuate residents, he said the city had been working with the federal Department of Homeland Security to make sure...
...After Richard died, the action shifted to depicting the consolidation of Bolingbroke’s power, but oddly enough, rather than letting the humor die with the most humorous character, Zalisk amped up the farce. There was a scene of an assassination attempt played as a sitcom, complete with broad mugging, slapstick, and a laugh track (provided by three actors behind a curtain). This scene was amusing and unsettling in its incongruity, but it was also confusing, marking a radical shift from the characterizations that had been set up to that point. The modernization was not confined to the characterizations...
...government officials in strategy and technology developments. “There’s a tendency to think that all military leaders learn is to shoot people and blow things up,” Hooper said. “I think the students got a good appreciation for the broad strategic knowledge, language, history, philosophy, information management, politics, and economics that are all elements of the education of the modern military,” he added. Hooper stressed the importance of overcoming common stereotypes about armed forces personnel. He said that Harvard students—as future leaders?...