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...have certainty when it comes to the Harvard College Curricular Review, but it is clear that there is lively consensus about the need for courses with interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth, and humanities faculty are eager to teach them...
...Eric Buehrens, who now meets weekly with University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Bok, and Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston development group, says that Summers’ vision will be carried ahead, even as he vacates office.“I think there is broad consensus among the governing members of the University, among the most engaged alums and donors, and among the faculty leadership and deans...about the need to use Allston as a platform for innovative science,” Buehrens says.Harvard’s emphasis on science under Summers coincided with regional...
...threatened today by “faith-based terror.” As an example of reason in danger, Summers said that the theory of evolution is being challenged in U.S. public schools more today than ever in the last 100 years. He said that “consensus and comfort” should never be held above “the value of truth.” “When the airing and incorporation of diverse views becomes the end rather than the means, then we set the bar too low,” Summers said. When...
...review. In short, it’s time to get moving. The review is the work of eight different committees, the most wide-reaching and controversial of which was the Committee on General Education. The Gen Ed report has generally been received favorably because there is rightfully a general consensus, among undergraduates and many faculty members alike, that the Core is antiquated and broken. It seeks to teach “approaches to knowledge” without any reference to the knowledge being approached. The result is students who may excel in cocktail party details but are not necessarily broadly...
...Iran's leaders believe the strategic balance has shifted in their favor since the previous talks with the Europeans. Rising world oil prices and the difficulties faced by the U.S. in Iraq have increased Tehran's leverage. Iran is also aware that the consensus reached in Vienna by European leaders and China remains fragile; while the Bush Administration insists that no military option is off the table, for example, Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the agreement rules out the use of military force against Iran "in any circumstances." These factors could embolden Tehran's negotiating stance...