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...militants' strategy takes its cue from Lebanon, where Hezbollah's low-intensity war eventually forced Israel out by rendering the cost of remaining there unbearable. Of course, Israel is a lot more invested in the West Bank than it was in Lebanon - for one thing, up to 200,000 Israelis have settled there since the territory was captured in 1967. Also, the Palestinians lack the ready access to sophisticated weaponry Hezbollah enjoyed throughout its 18-year campaign. But the Israeli Defense Force was a lot less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza...
Rohit Chopra ’04, a CUE member who spoke in favor of the proposal at a Faculty meeting earlier this month, said he was pleased, though not surprised, that the Faculty Council endorsed the measure...
...more distressing considering his standing with Harvard’s undergraduate community. Vaux teaches a very popular Core offering, Social Analysis 34: “Knowledge of Language,” and received high marks for his teaching ability, friendliness and accessibility in the this year’s CUE guide. Quality of teaching and the ability to relate to students are attributes that dramatically increase the quality of undergraduate education, and they ought to be given more weight during tenure deliberations...
...future holds. “I never make predictions, especially about the future,” confides Jay M. Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies. At the same time, people like Harris are in charge of deciding what the future holds. Harris sits on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), where he sifts through policy proposals aimed to improve the undergraduate academic experience...
...Within the next five years, the Faculty will realize that students are not leaving the gates with the kind of liberal education they should have,” says Rohit Chopra ’04, a member of CUE and chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee. Benedict H. Gross, who is Leverett professor of mathematics and chair of the Core’s Quantitative Reasoning subcommittee, wagers that “there will be some mutation of the Core.” One could argue that this has already begun, as the Faculty considers reducing...