Word: core
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...Mercedes to think of) and in the answering adrenal bursts of the Israeli soldiers scarcely older than the stone throwers. Maybe this time the shabab would disperse before the soldiers' charge. Perhaps some would be caught and beaten, or hit by rubber bullets (rubber, that is, with a core of steel). Tear gas might be fired. Someone might get shot, and killed. Tradition draws upon tradition. The uprising in the territories, deep into its fourth month, has its violent patterns by now, action and reaction, provocation...
Second, the faculty and program administrators should take mercy on students seeking to satiate their curiosity while still meeting requirements and navigating bureaucracy. Currently, only one course that counts for secondary field credit is allowed to be “double-counted” to fulfill a Core requirement. Although we agree that a secondary field should be a major intellectual effort, the current no-exceptions policy is unnecessarily constraining. A more judicious system would allow for credit petitions, which, given the resources being devoted to implementing secondary fields, seems feasible...
...because the café is a guaranteed social center—that missing core in the Harvard undergraduate experience. I often find myself strolling through the café for no apparent reason other than to check who is there, with the comforting knowledge that I will almost always know someone. Maybe that’s an indictment of my social circle, but if the variety of people in the café is any indication, I am not alone in feeling its aura of sociability. Rather than gains in work, café dwellers—including those who purport...
...worked for seven years as deputy for then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office that oversees church orthodoxy. Promoted in 2002 to Archbishop of Genoa, Bertone attained the rank of Cardinal the next year and was thought to be among the core group in the conclave that pushed for Ratzinger's election. Still, since he didn't have the usual rsum from the Vatican diplomatic corps, many were surprised when his old boss, now Pope Benedict XVI, tapped him to take over in September as Vatican Secretary of State...
...Just as remarkable has been the way Sinn Fein has moved away from its hard-core principles without causing a major internal rift. Twenty years ago they started taking up most of the posts they were elected to, reversing a refusal to recognize elected bodies on either side of the Irish border. In September 2005 the IRA got rid of its weapons, implicitly acknowledging that politics was the only way forward. And now, after a substantial program of police reform that dropped a lot of the force's British associations, brought in tougher human rights standards and encouraged more Catholics...