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...article about how the will to succeed is affected by genes, gender, privilege and persistence sparked a lively debate between readers who appreciated the broad diversity of the people we profiled and readers who rejected wealth and fame as the most important indicators of a fulfilled life...
France has absorbed waves of immigrants from many countries. Those newcomers came from a broad spectrum of the economic and political landscape, yet eventually most of them assimilated into the French population. Why is that not happening with the Muslim community? Muslims were welcomed and provided with government assistance that they would never have received in their own Islamic countries. Although it is incumbent on governments to provide adequate education and job opportunities to minorities, it is also the responsibility of Muslim communities embedded in the West to start asking themselves the hard questions about their failure to assimilate. Until...
...yesterday’s meeting of the full Faculty, professors broadly supported replacing the Core Curriculum with a system of distributional requirements, though they did not a reach a consensus on what those requirements should look like.The General Education Committee formally presented its report to professors at the meeting, with Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel introducing the committee’s recommendation that students should be required to take three courses in each of three distribution areas—the Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, and the Study of Societies.In the report, the committee also proposed...
Sampson said he is cautiously optimistic about trends of lowered violent crimes in recent years. Commenting on the broad-based international decline in crime rates, he said, “there could be some sort of cultural shift going on in advanced industrialized countries...
Last Tuesday Congress took the first, difficult step towards evaluating the need for U.S. troops in Iraq. In a 79-19 bipartisan vote, the Senate passed a broad defense policy bill which included language saying that 2006 “should be a period of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty.” The bill also calls for the Bush administration to furnish Congress with progress reports on the need for U.S. troops every three months. Though likely to be reshaped for passage in the House, the Senate version of the bill is the first sign that Congress...