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...April 2004] report laid out some very broad brush strokes,” said Robert A. Lue, a senior lecturer on molecular and cellular biology and member of three curricular review committees. “What you’re beginning to see in these reports is something that is a bit more detailed...
...faculty task forces, first established in the wake of Summers’ remarks, released a broad set of recommendations today, and the University said many of the proposals—on issues ranging from student research to faculty hiring—would be implemented immediately...
...Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Sweden. "They are read by young people, immigrants, the unemployed and people with low income. This is very positive." And free news doesn't necessarily mean second-hand...
...soften Ariel Sharon's image. "He's a warrior. He's quite fat, and when he walks, he stomps along," Adler, an advertising executive, recalls thinking. "We had to give him some feminine appeal." Sharon, Adler calculated, was too far to the right on the political spectrum to gain broad support. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 representing the extreme left wing and 5 the far right, Adler figured, Sharon was a 4.7. The winner of every previous election had been a little right of center, Adler judged--somewhere from 2.6 to 3.2. If Sharon wanted...
...minority voters vote in blocks, raising this threshold would diminish the power of those blocks, making a more diverse UC harder to achieve. Without questioning whether the student body is better off with reps elected by one of these blocks—minority candidates should appeal to a broad constituency, after all—the best solution would ultimately be to encourage more students from diverse backgrounds to run for office...