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Members of the Committee on General Education acknowledge that the report does not have the detail that some were expecting. They point to this as a result of their desire to simplify the College’s general education requirements. “[The Committee] explored quite different models, including those with many more requirements, but in the end opted strongly for what it believed to be a simple and flexible model,” Kirby wrote...
...Federal Reserve, to investigate those issues. In February his panel released its first report, accusing the head of the oil-for-food program of "grave conflict of interest" for steering lucrative oil contracts to friends and accepting cash payments. Volcker's second report, issued last week, focused in detail on Annan...
March Madness has taken on a different meaning in Britain, where the public is fixating on every new detail about Prince Charles' impending nuptials while still fuming that he is marrying Princess Diana's tormenter Camilla Parker Bowles. Here's a guide to the muted extravagance that will be served up on April 8. --By Julie Rawe...
...describe these courses is so vague that it is questionable that even the members of the committee know what a Harvard College Course will involve. In order for the committee to muster up any support for the proposed curriculum changes, it must explicitly state in greater and more concrete detail what a Harvard College Course is. Only then can the committee hope to get backing from students and Faculty...
...went out for cigarettes. That's my favorite detail of the story told by Ashley Smith. It was not a noble calling; it wasn't even a noble errand. But the craving for nicotine at 2 o'clock in the morning apparently led Smith into the loaded gun of one Brian Nichols, a man who was wanted for raping one woman and murdering another woman and three men. According to Smith, Nichols forced her into her apartment, tied her up, put her in the bathtub and told her, "I'm not going to hurt you if you just do what...