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...lead the charge for general education.Nonetheless, in a two-semester survey of “Literature Humanities,” Russell has carved out a place in the battery of freshmen seminars (usually a portal to Harvard at its most myopic) to provide a semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers.It has long been supposed that no one—neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise most of any Great Books curriculum. That over 100 freshmen applied to Russell’s fall semester seminar bespeak...
...comment briefly on the individual reports before returning to the larger picture. The Committee on General Education proposes to replace the Core Program with a curriculum at once broad and deep, opening up the entire Courses of Instruction for the general education of our students, empowering Departments to craft curricula for broader audiences, while summoning the Faculty to mount a new set of foundational courses to serve as 'portals' to large and important areas of knowledge...
...Committee on Education Abroad recommends that all Harvard College students pursue a significant international experience during their time in the College. Working with our Office for International Programs it has overseen a broad expansion of our programs abroad and has proposed standards for the forms of international study, research, internship and public service opportunities that would meet this expectation . The Committee on Pedagogical Improvement tells us how we can evaluate better teaching and learning across the College and how, as an undergraduate college at the center of a research university, we might further the development of communities of learning...
...five years, President Bush has already challenged up to 500 provisions, according to one tally--far, far more than any predecessor. But more important than the number under Bush has been the systematic use of the statements and the scope of their content, asserting a very broad legal loophole for the Executive. Last December, for example, after a year of debate, the President signed the McCain amendment into law. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, the amendment banned all "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of U.S. military detainees. For months, the President threatened a veto. Then the Senate passed...
...spreads to Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers - ordinary Thais like Rampai - has been enlisted to look for possible outbreaks. The volunteers disseminate information about the disease and its symptoms to villagers who normally have little contact with doctors or government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government...