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...effort to move curricular review forward, Cabot House Master and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris spoke in favor of allowing more departmental courses to count for Core credit at Tuesday’s full faculty meeting. The meeting revealed that “there seemed to be two different ways of approaching” general education reform, with one group calling for further discussion and another calling for progress this year, Ryan said...
...After the news broke, talking heads drowned the airwaves with calls for Bonds to step aside. But minus a failed drug test, the final smoking gun that will never emerge, or shot knees, don?t count on it. ?I won?t even look at [the book],? he told a group of reporters gathered around his spring training locker in Scottsdale, Arizona. ?For what? I won?t even look at it.? Bonds then walked away, treating the press, and the public, with the same flippancy he?s displayed since the first steroid allegation emerged. But he won?t walk away from...
...late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion on the local cross-country scene, in sneakers and on skis. A Junior Olympian. An All-American.“I really believe...
...Avenue Q. Producer Kevin McCollum says he believed Wynn's up-front backing would take "much of the risk out of the equation for us." For a regular tour, he would have faced traveling expenses of $50,000 a week. But success is measured differently in Vegas. "Body count is as important or more important than your gross potential," says Michael Gill, general manager of Vegas' Mamma Mia! Word of mouth for the off-kilter show (Avenue Q features a gaggle of foulmouthed puppets) wasn't enough to fill its 1,200-seat venue, which is 1 1/2 times...
China's leaders had better try to win them back. Violent local protests are convulsing the Chinese countryside with ever greater frequency--and Beijing has proved unable to quell the unrest. By the central government's own count, there were 87,000 "public-order disturbances" in 2005, up from 10,000 in 1994. Most took place in out-of-the-way hamlets like Panlong, where peasants who were once the backbone of the Communist Party feel excluded from China's full-throttle economic development. Many of China's 900 million rural inhabitants are farmers, who have little legal or political...