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...listen for what they say, I sit back, and I applaud what a good job they are doing. The content is theirs, the initiative is theirs, the talent is theirs, all the credit goes to them,” he said...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Defend Fed Challenge Title | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...while some are content without a graduate student union, Freeman said unionization at Harvard could gain support, especially with the potential for a decline in Harvard funding for grad students in the wake of the financial crisis...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teaching Fellows May Look to Unionize | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...With the changes, you won’t lose any of the content of 10a and 10b,” Greenblatt said at the event. “It will trickle down to students through the professors themselves who, after all, specialize in each of these areas of English literature...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: English Dept. Approves Overhaul of Undergraduate Requirements | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Under parental pressure, the bishop demanded that the school shelve the books. The school’s nuns refused, arguing that it was their academic right to teach the modern canons regardless of the content. In response, the bishop threatened to remove the school from the Catholic diocese—an act that would freeze the school’s funding...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Losing My Religion | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...handbooks guide the "journeys," offering exercises in critical thinking, ethical decision making, "assessing team dynamics" and "community asset mapping." Is Juliette Low rolling in her grave as camps close down to make way for jazzier Web content and global networking? Lee Ann Maley, a Girl Scout executive in South Carolina, believes that the founder would approve of the new model of assertive girlhood. "We're doing more with science, technology, engineering and math," Maley says. "I think Juliette Low would be standing up and blowing her horn - the girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Just Cookies: Rethinking the Girl Scouts | 11/29/2008 | See Source »

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