Word: core
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...give people skills necessary for a sophisticated understanding of the social sciences and current events. The roles of ethnic minorities, the dynamics of ongoing border disputes, the strategic positions of key waterways: concepts like these are fundamental to developing a mature perspective on global affairs. Without a strong core of geographic knowledge, analyzes of international events tend to be myopic at best and provincial at worst. Yet Harvard’s course catalog continues to feature a grand total of zero courses in the subject. If Harvard is to have any sort of meaningful core curriculum—one which...
...Minister Dominique de Villepin's presidential hopes, you might think the country's students would be simply content to celebrate their triumph. But while unions and some student groups said President Jacques Chirac's disavowal of the law was enough reason for them to end repeated demonstrations, more hard-core university and political groups pledged to continue staging marches and protests until the wider package of measures the now-defunct law was part of are repealed, including a similar, nine-month-old arrangement giving smaller businesses more flexibility fire young, new workers...
Students will be allowed to get minors based on completely arbitrary reasons, such as how many core classes they happened to take in freshman year. And since many things at Harvard—from admissions to recruiting—are a zero-sum game, an innovation this late is unfair, as it arbitrarily privileges some students over others. Secondary fields should not apply to any students currently at the College...
...Hurricane Katrina battered and left for dead. "Thank you, baby, need your help!" Nagin says, reaching into a car to shake hands. An African-American man in dreadlocks hops out of his car to have his picture taken with the mayor in the middle of the street. "When hard-core 'hood brothers do that, sumpin? is up," says the mayor with a grin...
...Paris; studied at Oxford University; legal intern in London I would not like to be in France at the moment. For an ambitious young person, it is a gloomy situation. I think that [ Dominique de] Villepin just went with his little trick, which is not going to solve the core problem. And I think that people realize that it is just another gimmick. If you are ambitious you want to be in a place where things are happening, where you can feel that there is electricity in the air. Paris is a big and beautiful city, but it does...