Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that despite the talk of rejuvenation, there are only three course offerings this term in each of the Historical Study A, Historical Study B and Moral Reasoning areas. Even worse off are students who don't speak French or Spanish, as they have a "choice" of two Foreign Cultures Core classes this term...
What the College fails to understand is that "Core reform" entails much more than simply adding a few classes here or there. It means more than offering excuses when asked why there are still only eight Moral Reasoning classes this year...
Students have repeatedly offered suggestions to improve the Core. Make proficiency in a foreign language count for Foreign Cultures credit. Restore AP exemptions for the Science Core areas. Allow a substantial number of department classes to count for Core credit. Or just eliminate the Core entirely and replace it with distribution requirements...
...Friday, in the breathtaking opening arguments from both sides, the combatants placed before us a choice between core values: between privacy, which has become so fragile, and morality, which has become so debased. Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton, hunter and quarry, one wielding his scorching flashlight, the other his anointed cigar: Which troubles people more? One prosecutor, unaccountable, brought the full force of the legal system to bear in probing private sexual behavior; one President, implacably evasive, drew on the full weaponry of his office simply to hold on to it. The verdicts the American people will render...
...Attorney. "He did so on my advice. I went to the President and said the independent counsel is seeking to intrude into the legitimate, confidential discussions you have with your lawyers and that your senior staff have among themselves. It is your obligation as the President to protect the core constitutional interests of the presidency...