Word: core
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...Since professors lacked a quorum when they gathered in University Hall yesterday for their meeting—the fifth gathering of the Faculty in five weeks—no official votes were taken on the final proposed amendments to the general education program slated to replace the often-criticized Core Curriculum. While the Core focuses on “ways of knowing,” the new program—which was introduced to the Faculty in February—stresses connections between academic study and the real world. Yesterday’s meeting was marked by awkward legislative maneuvers...
...Crimson columnist?” There are so many benefits to the position that I don’t even know where to begin. I relish the opportunity to use Harvard’s premier media outlet to express my strong opinions about controversial topics that affect the very core of our University and even the world at large, like how chicken parmigiana should be served more often than biweekly. I love the power to stimulate intellectual debate over some of the world’s most perplexing issues. It fills my heart with glee when I overhear students arguing...
...rubric "Names make news." From the beginning, Henry Luce's idea for TIME was to explain the news through the people who make it. Luce would have loved the TIME 100, our fourth annual issue in which we name the 100 most influential people on the planet. At the core of the TIME 100 is the idea that individuals--by virtue of their character, their drives and their dreams--change the world and make history. We divide our choices into five categories: Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artists & Entertainers, Scientists & Thinkers and Heroes & Pioneers...
Julian Mitchell, an analyst with Credit Suisse, applauds Kleinfeld for sorting out the bad businesses in the company's portfolio but says Siemens--no matter who runs it--still has a lot of work to do. "The next phase is all about improving execution in the core areas of the company, the areas the company is good at, like power and automation and health care, and then further streamlining the portfolio," he says...
...session, the psychiatrist asked me what some of my coping techniques were. I thought for a minute and then replied, “Sometimes, when I’m lonely, I hold my pee-pee, really fast.” As the fourteen other students in my Tuesday afternoon Core section turned their faces away in disgust, the TF explained to me that this was not therapy, and that I had to leave Sever 102 immediately. As I walked through the Yard, I looked forward to an afternoon of warming myself by the giant mushroom outside Canaday and then stalking...