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...Cabinet and survive until July, when the spotlight will be on Japan as it hosts a G-8 summit. That could "slow the erosion of [Fukuda's] support," Curtis says. "That's what he has to do if he's going to stay in office much longer." Says Phil Deans, an international-affairs expert and assistant dean at Temple University in Tokyo: "The more ordinary, normal and boring the Sino-Japanese relationship is, the better it is for everybody." When Fukuda takes on Hu at Ping-Pong, his shot selection had better be perfect...
...really can't have a divided convention. If we do, it's going to be very hard to heal the party afterward.' HOWARD DEAN, Democratic Party chairman, saying either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama should drop out of the nomination contest after the June primaries to unify the party...
...academic disciplines that demonstrates little in the way of a singular, motivating, guiding philosophy. The consequences of this decline are profoundly troublesome, as a slow start to Gen Ed threatens to banish incoming classes of Harvard undergraduates to an incoherent education. To hasten the development of Gen Ed, incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds must refocus Gen Ed around a meaningful educational philosophy. In their preliminary report a year and a half ago, the chairs of the Task Force on General Education, English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Allison Simmons, presented a brand of liberal education that...
...premier undergraduate institutions to be so sluggish in implementing a new curriculum is appalling. With Gen Ed only a few months away from its launch, this program needs to rediscover the impetus and the mission that it sought to embody in its preliminary report. It is incumbent upon Dean Hammonds, who take office on June 1, to restore the sense that Gen Ed is guided by a unified vision of global leadership and engagement. If the program hopes to be successful, Hammonds must use her influence, wielding the power of the pulpit, to infuse Gen Ed with a coherent...
...action.” In just a few years, the site has channelled tens of millions of dollars into Democratic campaign coffers nationwide, becoming the financial backbone of the “Netroots” movement that has sprouted up following the presidential campaign of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean...