Word: cores
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...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) will be more difficult for the class of 1992, and may be on its way to becoming an eleventh Core Curriculum topic, some of its administrators said yesterday...
...subcommittee acted because of professors' complaints that their students often pass the exam without understanding the material, said Aaron S. Richmond '91, one of two students on the subcommittee, which is part of the Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum. He said the changes in the program would make freshmen work harder to understand the material, but would also give them more help with studying...
...colleges and universities," he asked, "on the issue of their responsibility to foster moral discernment in their students? With the exception of a relatively few places--mostly religious or military institutions--higher education is silent." When asked about efforts such as the moral reasoning courses in the Core Curriculum, he replied: "That's about [moral] dilemmas, lifeboat stuff. I don't mean theory. I meant getting drugs off campus." Alas, the debate was never squarely joined, nor has it been in other forums. Bennett and his supporters seem bent on caricaturing the new courses without understanding what the instructors...
...countries, the company operates the eighth largest insurance brokerage in the world, a sizable construction firm, an investment bank, and Mandarin Oriental, a leading chain of hotels from San Francisco to Bangkok. Its Hong Kong operations range from the local Mercedes dealership to Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises. But the core of the company's holdings is $3.2 billion worth of real estate in Hong Kong's central business district -- fully 65% of the office and commercial space in the area...
...class and thinks of himself always, as he told the press last fall, as a "simple Buddhist monk." Though he is one of the most erudite scholars of one of the most cerebral of all the world's philosophies, he has a gift for reducing his doctrine to a core of lucid practicality, crystallized in the title of his 1984 book, Kindness, Clarity and Insight (Snow Lion Press). "My true religion," he has said, "is kindness...