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...first, the proposal for Harvard College Courses, the broad and ill-defined replacement for the Core put forth in last month’s report on the curricular review, seemed merely incompetent. But administrators were evidently motivated by another, less-than-savory rationale, buried deep within the report in a comma-delineated clause about the Harvard College Courses: “They should develop distinctive course materials for use in, and potentially beyond, Harvard College” (emphasis added). The great secret that explains these new classes, confirmed for me by several people connected to the review, is that administrators...
...look no further than the testimonials on most departments’ websites to see that students enjoy a 14- or 16-course study in a humanities field for reasons beyond their dreams of becoming a Ph.D. The curricular review report, alas, seems to propose an education that is neither broad nor deep...
...first thing he did was reorganize the top tier of editors. He hired as his deputy Dean Baquet, then the national editor at the New York Times, and gave him broad authority over the day-to-day running of the paper. Baquet has pushed his people hard to compete with the large East Coast papers in national and foreign coverage, in the Times's reporting on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as with in-depth pieces like a Pulitzer-winning series on Wal-Mart that showed how the store cut prices with overseas sourcing...
...addition to these broad directives and prohibitions, restrictions can rear their head on the more localized level, in the form of conditions placed on an individual federal grant...
...Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston coordinates a broad agenda of research, training and public service, focusing on the major issues facing the state and region. The Institute is primarily funded by a multi-year grant from the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation, whose namesake has been a prominent Boston civic and business leader for the past half century...