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Another well-known Harvard academic advising Romney is Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, who teaches the popular Core course, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics.” Although Mankiw has criticized scholars and politicians’ current emphasis on international competitiveness, he said of Porter’s appointment, “I’m delighted to be working with him and I’m delighted to see that Mitt Romney is reaching out to some of the best minds that academia has to offer...
...General Education became the Core Curriculum. The Faculty seemed to have at last woken up to the fact that one cannot both respect diversity and maintain consistency in undergraduate education. Thank goodness, then, that the Core was little more than an almost-coherent statement of what Harvard’s almost-diverse student body of 1979 ought to learn...
...Whether or not these cuts deliver the improvements Byford envisages, the spectacle of the BBC targeting such core services and preserving frothier output fuels concerns that it has lost its reason for being. Richard D. North, author of a 2007 book called Scrap the BBC!, calls the broadcaster a "grotesque monopoly" and advocates its privatization. "Broadcasting now needs no more control or support than the print media," he says...
Against all odds, my science Core requirement, Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” is my favorite class this semester. I swore off amino acids and lipids in high school after a nightmarish AP Chemistry experience, but I had one core class left so I picked the one with the best CUE rating and thought I would sit through it quietly...
...York & Company, which purchased JasmineSola two years ago from founder Luciano Manganella. The company hopes for higher profits following the move, according to a press release. “We believe that we can generate greater shareholder value by directing our resources and capital towards growth initiatives within our core New York & Company brand and therefore have made the difficult decision to exit the JasmineSola business,” Chairman and CEO Richard P. Crystal said in a statement. JasmineSola has not been as financially successful as the rest of its parent company, The Boston Globe reported last week...