Word: coreness
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...perhaps dangerously myopic. Williams reports complaints from Egyptian Christians that their churches are being denounced - or, he hints, threatened - by Muslim clergy because of same-sex relationships, even though the local Christians themselves have never accepted their validity. Williams would like to see a "covenant" or set of core Anglican principles. U.S. Episcopalians have criticized this as a move aimed at forcing liberal churches into Roman-style lockstep, and he acknowledged it could eventually isolate the American church's current stance on homosexuality. "I don't want to accelerate departure, God forbid," he says, adding that he hopes both...
...oversaturated U.S. golf market, courses have to stand out to survive. The slow but steady decline in golfers over the past six years resulted in a 70% decrease in commissioned courses from 2000 to 2006. Last year the number of core golfers (those playing at least eight rounds a year) fell about 11% from 2000, with a 3% drop in rounds played during the same period, according to the National Golf Foundation. More golf courses closed in the U.S. than opened (146 shut down, while only 119 opened), the first such occurrence in six decades. "The game is less attractive...
When he starts work on a movie, Bird looks for core thoughts. The core here: "Cooks are givers, and rats are takers. In the larger world there are people who are givers and people who are takers. Cooking, feeding people, is a giving act. All art at its best is a giving act that continues to give as long as the art is consumed. As with a cook, you're handing it over to someone to enjoy...
...preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education, released in October by a committee chaired by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. The report, whose final version was approved by the Faculty last month, said that the Core Curriculum’s “emphasis on the disciplines may be misplaced...
After four years at Harvard, English professor Louis Menand—a mastermind behind the general education program that will replace the Core Curriculum—will return to New York City for a sabbatical. “I am Class of ’07 too, in a way,” Menand wrote in an e-mailed statement last week. For the next year, The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work...