Word: cores
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Criticism also comes in the form of two annual course review books, the College's student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education CUE Guide and the Crimson's Confidential Guide. Both will explain that the Core Curriculum is Harvard's answer for worries about the survival of liberal education. Both describe the withered remains of the General Education Curriculum, Harvard's last answer to worries about liberal education. One has jokes, the other statistics. Both help. And as they say in "Boats," full steam ahead, mate...
...second to Bok and he reportedly has forged a close working relationship with the president. Rosovsky's stature increased when he turned down the presidency of Yale several years ago to stay on here. For the record the dean's said he wanted to nurse his brainchild, the Core Curriculum riculum Colleagues privately acknowledge that he is gunning for Harvard's presidency, should Bok step aside...
...make things big: the immense blast furnaces of its steel mills, the vast concrete expanses of its dams and the monumental skyscrapers towering over its cities. In the future, industrial might will flow increasingly from the power to make things small: the microscopic electrical circuits that form the core of computers, calculators, missile control panels, televisions, video games and all other electronic products. Called semiconductors, these circuits are most commonly etched in invisibly intricate detail on thin silicon chips as small as a baby's fingernail. Marvels in miniature, the chips can execute commands, perform complex calculations and store...
...dying act of the P.L.O. is to hijack an entire city. Let us help Israel stamp them out once for all and eliminate the core of world terrorism...
...cautiously thanking Allah while waiting for the next plague of locusts. They point to numbers that have obtained for the past decade: each year, give or take 10%, the industry sells about 1 billion tickets in the U.S.; some 20% of the population buys 80% of those tickets; this core audience tends to be in the 12-to-24 age group; the young attend more movies in the months between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and so Hollywood serves up its big youth-oriented movies in that period. Says Frank Price, president of Columbia Pictures: "Kid pictures always do well...