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...Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding of American culture, foreign cultures, and religions. “I think both the Red Book and our report are both kind of efforts to look outside the college to what the world’s like that students will confront,” says Menand. “I think we kind of think of ourselves as going back to the great mother document which was the Red Book.”LEARNING FROM THE EXPERTS Usually the members on education committees at Harvard are experts in their fields?...
...problem with the general education report released earlier this month is that it fails to confront the major fault of the Core Curriculum: the lack of student choice. A philosophical change from “ways of learning” to “application of learning” doesn’t solve the fact that only about one-eighth of the courses in the history department fulfill the Historical Studies requirement, and only one class in the entire philosophy department fulfills Moral Reasoning. Quibbling over methodological approaches and requirement names will only replace one repressive system with another...
...mantle convection moves the tectonic plates, which in turn control the distribution of natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. We then address how dinosaurs came to be. Here, I concentrate on the central unifying principle in biology, Darwin’s theory of evolution. We then confront the challenging question of how we make inferences about the biology of extinct organisms, which centers on how we make inferences about the past (also relevant to the humanities). Along the way, students learn much about dinosaurs, biomechanics, and key concepts such sexual selection, species concepts...
...have people inside, undercover,” he said. “We’re trying to build groups in stores, so a cluster of workers can confront their manager with a list of demands...
...anti-Holocaust-denying laws in some central European nations. Although the motivations for these laws may have been understandable in the post-war era, governments should not impose their version of the truth over their citizens. The French bill is well intentioned; its goal is to force Turkey to confront the atrocities committed by the ruling Committee for Union and Progress during World War I. But we cannot help but be skeptical of any state trying to impose its version of history and truth. States should simply avoid this business. Thus, our opposition extends beyond the French bill...