Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago this spring, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) was in a ferment, arguing heatedly about the implementation of the new Core Curriculum and its implications for Harvard's undergraduates...
...fear of leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants to tell everything -- every one of the heart's dirty little secrets -- to his coterie audience. At the core, these are high-gloss melodramas with high comedy along the edges. They move like Roger Rabbit on speed, and so do the horny, drug-hyped, tortured, ironic, cartoonish creatures of his imagination...
...core of the dispute is the question of who owns the copyright to commissioned "intellectual property," be it art, writing, movies or computer software. Several federal courts of appeal have split on the issue when freelance work is involved. Since millions of dollars are potentially at stake down the line, Snyder's group has found itself allied with some major corporate interests. Supporting briefs have been filed by trade associations, whose members include I.B.M., Procter & Gamble and Dow Chemical, as well as publishing companies such as the New York Times Co., Time Inc. and the Hearst Corp. Reid has also...
...Core Curriculum marks its 10th year, professors of Core courses hold a colloquium on paper extensions, lotteries and pushy brown-nosers who frequent office hours--and decide that these traits should be officially incorporated into the Core's philosophy. An 11th division called "Modes of Inquiry" is created to foster these qualities in Harvard academic life...
...Next to the deficit, drugs are the hot spot of politics. Like Bush, Bennett believes the U.S. must sharpen attacks on both the supply and the demand ends of the drug trade. But long ago he saw that education was the only way finally to control the scourge. "The core problem is the children," he told friends, "particularly children in the big cities. They are dying from drugs...