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...list of names and events to have memorized. College is a time to expand the bounds of one’s personal knowledge by exploring a variety of complex subjects in depth; it is not a time to teach basic civics. Mandating civics instruction in college would not only diminish students’ freedom in selecting their courses, but it would likely do little but stave off students’ mental evaporation for an additional four years. Rather than encouraging colleges to institute mandatory civics courses, which might only delay a drop-off in knowledge retention four more years...
...Republican leadership is aware of the conflict between the short- and long-term interests of the party and is doing what it can to diminish the cost. On stem cells, for example, the tactic is to get the battle over with as soon as possible. The GOP leadership chose the gap between the July 4th and August recesses as a low-visibility moment for the vote and compressed the time the voting would take. Bush's veto, and the expected House failure to override it, will come within days and will soon have been replaced by other issues...
Though he was reportedly forced to withdraw from the MBA program for two years due to poor grades, that experience did not diminish his school spirit. He joined the Corporation in 1995 and is now its most powerful member...
...combat more profoundly than other countries. We have done terrible things--in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam and now, it strongly appears, in Haditha in Iraq. These dark moments--indiscriminately bombarding German civilians in World War II, mowing down Vietnamese peasants at My Lai--do not necessarily diminish the rightness of the cause for which we fight. For Americans, in whom isolationism runs deep, it is perhaps reflexive to feel revulsion and want to withdraw from conflicts and commitments where young Americans can do evil things...
...were converted to Houses in 1961. Construction on the tenth house, Mather, was scheduled to begin in 1963, but it took the University an additional four years to buy out the parcels of land required to begin construction.The College intended to use the extra space afforded by Quincy to diminish overcrowding and to devote the other two Houses to increasing the number of admitted students. The University opened the $4 million health center—snow called University Health Services—on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets in the fall of 1961, putting Harvard?...