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Political popularity is usually relative. Even the most unloved politicians have a hard core of supporters who will back them no matter what. But in Israel these days, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is testing the limits of the possible: in a recent poll by a local television station, he had a favorable rating of 3%. Given the poll's margin of error, it was possible Olmert had no support beyond his extended family. The Prime Minister responded to this dismaying turn of events--caused by Israel's less than triumphant war against Hizballah last summer, plus a gaudy array...
...ethic of connectedness is at the core of the New American Story. It is the common ground of our political history, and it can support a new politics that is both inspiring and deeply practical. As Americans, we are not red or blue; we are red, white and blue. All Americans want the same basic things: a good job at good pay, affordable health insurance for themselves and their families, quality education for their children, economic security in old age. We can achieve all of this. In our country's past, we rose to greater challenges: we ended slavery...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences took another step toward abolishing the Core Curriculum yesterday, releasing a draft of legislation that calls for the committee that administers the Core to be dissolved when the next academic year concludes...
...Questions also remain about the timetable for implementation. While the legislation calls for the Standing Committee on the Core Program to be abolished and replaced by the Standing Committee on General Education in the 2008-2009 academic year, it does not say when the Core Curriculum itself should cease to exist...
...According to the proposed legislation, the administrative structure of the new general education program would be different from the Core. In particular, the program’s director would be a senior member of the Faculty—not an administrator, as is the case with the Core...