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...Wolcowitz, the College released the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report. Among its recommendations were calls to do away with the Core in favor of distribution requirements, a new brand of courses, the Harvard College Courses, a push for students to study abroad, improved advising and science education and delay the concentration decision until the middle of sophomore year. These proposals and others will likely be subject to debate and voting by the Faculty throughout this year...
...forthwith. Sistani had previously threatened massive street demonstrations to ensure that such a poll be held immediately, and it took UN intervention to coax him into accepting the January date. Sistani on Wednesday reiterated his demand that the poll go ahead on schedule, his remarks a reminder that further delay could bring new political instability...
...counterattacking. A team of health experts, assembled by the national advocacy group Alzheimer's Australia and spearheaded by American dementia expert Zaven Khachaturian, will on Sept. 20 in Sydney present a "Vision Statement" that argues "there is no time to lose" and outlines a four-point plan for delaying the onset of dementia. If that goal sounds modest, there's cause to hope for more. "This is the best of times for Alzheimer's research," says group member Colin Masters, professor of pathology at the University of Melbourne, who says drugs that could stop or reverse the disease...
...National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether; it is an argument...
When Chris White, a page from New Hampshire, asked whether voting should be required, panelist Susan Hirschmann, the former chief of staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was appalled...