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...English professors said the new curriculum, after the department’s first major reform in over two decades, will be unlike any other they had researched. It will begin offering four common-ground courses in the fall, and a full selection of eight per semester in the spring. These courses will replace the required survey courses English 10a and 10b, the American literature requirement, and the sophomore tutorial...
...Concentrators will now take more electives and fulfill one requirement in each of the four common-ground categories. According to Donoghue, the guiding mission for the new curriculum was to improve pedagogy by reducing class sizes. The new courses will be capped at thirty students...
...common-ground courses are intended primarily for sophomore and junior English concentrators. Current sophomores and juniors may enroll in the new courses, which will have equivalents under the current curriculum. Donoghue said that non-concentrators and underclassmen may be allowed to take common-ground, but that it is not clear. He said that one possible course, “English Lyrics,” proposed by English Professor Helen H. Vendler, would cover Shakespeare, Herbert, Wordsworth and Keats...
...campaign pledge of reducing earmarks to below 1994 levels - when the GOP took control of the House - or less than $7.8 billion a year. "They have got to draw a line in the sand, and they didn't do it here," says Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "They have got to draw it in 2010 or it's irrelevant, whatever the promises are." (The Democratic leadership estimates that there are only $3.8 billion earmarks in the bill, while Ellis' nonpartisan watchdog group includes Army Corps of Engineers projects to reach a total of $7.7 billion...
...keep GOP colleagues abreast of progress. "We would hope that any process that goes forward will actually include Republicans and Democrats to get support not only of both parties but of the American people," says Dan Smith, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. (See the most common hospital mishaps...