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...most atrocious failures of the current Core Curriculum. Though numerous, these failures can be grouped into two main categories. First, thanks to their focus on “ways of knowing,” Core classes tend to focus on limited and somewhat obscure topics that are great for cocktail party banter but hardly form the basis of a truly general education. Second, the Core presents such a limited menu of classes that it is constraining, particularly for seniors who are at times forced to take poorly taught classes that do not interest them simply to fulfill a requirement.The Core...
...addressed the claims of the controversial book in a highly publicized debate. Wilberforce, speaking first, ended his oration by asking Huxley whether his apish ancestors were to be found on his mother’s or his father’s side. Huxley’s reply, now a cocktail party quotable for Darwinists the world over, was no less uncompromising: “I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.” So the increasingly contentious debate has gone until today, with theology and science unrelentingly...
...more internationally minded financial center to stay competitive. That transformation has become so successful lately that it has led to widespread speculation over whether London or New York City will become the world's supreme financial capital of the 21st century. While the n.y.s.e. and nasdaq threw swank cocktail parties during the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, talk of London's rise among business leaders was even more intoxicating. "London's openness, to foreign capital, to trade, to immigration," has helped it forge "a tremendous set of advantages," Laura D. Tyson, a former chairman...
...cards to prevent their numbers from being traced. Often, they would be in mid-sentence when a card ran out, and I would sometimes wait months before they saved up the money-and courage-to tell me more. Two years ago, I got a call while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while men discussed the city's frenzied property market. This time, the news from Qixia was good: Sun had been released from jail early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad...
...precarious relationship with the Republican base, Hillary's and Obama's coyness about whether they're running, Joe Biden's complete lack of it. Viewed from almost any distance outside the Beltway, the current contest for each party's nomination seems less like a horse race than an awkward cocktail party, full of subtle maneuvers for better placement, coded messages of disapproval, blatant pandering, and a few uninvited guests...