Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paris last week, Renault Chairman Raymond Levy emphasized that the proposed sale to Chrysler was "not an admission of failure." But he added that "we must concentrate our forces on our core businesses in Europe and not disperse them elsewhere." Translation: the financially battered, government- owned French company (estimated 1986 losses of $660 million or more on sales of around $21.6 billion) has spent $650 million during the past eight years in gradually assuming its controlling interest in AMC, but to little avail. Last year AMC's sales of the Alliance amounted to only 77,005 cars, down 41% from...
...West End originals; Randy Graff's splendid Fantine, utterly persuasive when, on her deathbed, she "sees" her absent daughter, is actually an improvement. In three major roles, however, the new ensemble falls far short: Terrence Mann sings Javert impeccably, but in an effort to humanize him, loses his obsessive core; Leo Burmester as the grasping innkeeper Thenardier and Jennifer Butt as his wife are neither scary nor funny, depriving the show of its keenest image of ignobility while also flattening much needed comic romps...
...just because the Core is a failure, however, does not mean that its goal is an impossible one. Teaching approaches might be the success that the architects of the Core thought it would, if anyone only teach approaches...
...nobody does. Instead professors teach Core courses the way their professors taught intro-courses. Nobody knows whether teaching approaches to non-concentrators makes sense because nobody has done...
...professors in the college can learn from their colleagues across the river, the Core may prove successful. If not, Harvard would be better off without it. Administrators who want to see the Core succeed have their work cut out for them, making sure professors learn to teach...