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...said all there is to say about Harvard’s grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that, for all its success in revitalizing the tottering General Education structure, creating interesting new courses, and bringing Faculty stars before undergraduates, the Core has several basic flaws. The most glaring of these...
...remarkable extent, they've succeeded - almost 16% of the entire landmass of the U.S. is protected, and the Endangered Species Act has helped save countless animals from extinction. But global warming threatens to change all that, by altering the very foundation on which the conservation movement was built. What good is a wildlife reserve if the protected animals can't live there, because climate change pushes them out? What difference does it make to defend trees from logging, if global warming will allow a new pest to ravage whole forests...
...year, when the party is in an even worse way, the heir-apparent will probably be expected to pitch in just as actively. If Nixon does engage in a vigorous and partisan campaign, however, he risks demolishing the glittering image of a mature and moderate statesman which he has built up over the past four years. He has gone a long way towards living down an unfavorable national reputation, but democratic cartoonists love to portray Nixon throwing mud-pies, and any indication of “low-road” politicking on his part will send them gleefully back...
...isolation. Since the U.S. military pulled out in 2006, Icelanders take the manifestations of their isolation - whether it's a lack of fresh produce or facing the forces of nature without any immediate help - with a Nordic stiff upper lip. As evening approaches in Hveragerdi, a small town built on a geothermal field so active that geysers have been known to spontaneously sprout in people's backyards, two boys bounce a pair of basketballs past the squadron of SAR volunteers. Did they feel the quake? "Yeah!" says Thorarinn Fridricksson, dribbling his ball. "We ran outside. I was laughing...
...Others suggested that the lobbyist problem will make fund raising even harder and has slowed the efforts to scale McCain's lean, insurgent campaign to the size he and his party will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much...