Word: core
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...challenge facing these new-media endeavors is for networks to expand their audiences and capture new viewers without damaging their core business. After all, the average American from 18 to 49 years old still watches 41/2 hr. of television daily, says Morgan Stanley managing director Richard Bilotti, while the same demographic stays online each day for only 57 min. Larry Kramer, digital president for CBS--among the most active networks in the new-media space--finds it's "a real balancing act" to experiment aggressively without jeopardizing the Eye's stately brand. "A lot of this activity is meant...
...weighing about 440 lbs. Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight and the power source going into it and height-of-burst requirements," says the diplomat, Western experts have...
...offers, for example, fewer of the kind of survey courses many undergraduates want and need—the sort of connect-the-dot overviews of the arts and sciences that form the foundation of a liberal education. Understandably, most Harvard faculty members want to teach their specialties. The core curriculum tried to bridge the gap by emphasizing methods of study rather than content, but it doesn’t seem to have truly satisfied anyone...
...already approved the course. When a colleague of mine disagreed with a tenure decision in another department, Larry rang him and talked long and earnestly with him. This was an approachable president willing to listen to others if they spoke up. He wanted to change things, to reform the Core for real, to engage people in vigorous, open conversation. Many students I met loved it. He talked to them. To my own surprise, I found myself saying “we” about Harvard...
...record, I regularly teach a large introductory course, (Historical Studies B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness”) in the Core. It typically enrolls 150 to 200 students. Tierney didn’t consider it worth mentioning. Nor did he discover David Armitage’s course on the Declaration of Independence, Joyce Chaplin’s on “The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” or Jill Lepore’s new core course, “Liberty and Slavery.” He did mention Vincent Brown’s course...