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Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC's global-news division, says the Internet channel "is forcing mainstream broadcasters to think what we can provide that they can't and to focus on our core values of objectivity and impartiality." That riles the denizens of Doughty Street, who claim the BBC has a liberal bias and are soliciting ideas for a campaign to stop the Beeb's taxpayer-funded subsidy. Not that Doughty Street is opposed to bias. "Do you know the problem with balance?" asks Dale. "It's boring." Quite a few Britons are starting to agree...
...requires the dean’s approval. The next dean also controls the fate of the College curriculum. Almost immediately, the new dean will determine whether the new General Education system is a breath of fresh air complete with new courses and more flexibility, or a reincarnation of the Core. The new dean will also have to quickly decide how to go forward with the pedagogical reforms encouraged by the recently released “Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard.” Faust has already taken steps on the long and winding road toward picking...
...Currently, only one credit from a secondary field can double-count toward anything else: a concentration credit, a Core requirement, or a language citation. This means that students in multidisciplinary concentrations cannot get secondary field credit in any overlapping department. For example, Social Studies concentrators cannot apply to receive a secondary field in government, economics, sociology, history, or philosophy, even if they have taken the requisite set of courses...
...League for the first time in its history this season, and league champion Penn will be graduating its three top players. A new team, such as Cornell or Columbia, may be favored next season. Harvard could well be in contention for the crown next year and, with a core composed of sophomores Harris and Housman, could be a major challenger in two seasons...
...going well last year. In May 2006, Admiral William J. Fallon, then combatant commander for U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) - and now the chief overseeing the more fraught theater that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan - visited four cities during an official tour of China that was, at its core, an open invitation for Beijing to emerge from the secrecy that shrouds much of its military planning and spending. The incentive for China? To sit down, U.S. officials later said, with counterparts in the Pentagon and be treated not as an enemy, but as a rising power with valid interests...