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While the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will meet today to discuss major reforms to the College’s system of general education that could eventually lead to the elimination of the Core Curriculum, the committee that oversees the current system is working to expand the number of departmental courses that can be taken to fulfill Core requirements. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said last week that he wrote to departments and asked them to submit lists of courses they offer that could be used as Core bypasses in the fall. The Core Standing Committee (CSC), which...
...President visited the service station to discuss a number of largely ineffectual remedies for pulling down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal...
Students crowded into corridors of the Center for Population and Development Studies yesterday to hear Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer discuss his pioneering model for treating infectious diseases in developing countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health” charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been...
...alarmed some allies, but differences are evident on the diplomatic front, as well. Germany's new conservative Chancellor, with the support of Britain, has repeatedly urged the Bush Administration to hold direct talks with Iran, warning that there won't be a diplomatic solution unless the two key protagonists discuss their differences. "It's amazing that when we're in a bilateral position, or kind of just negotiating one on one, somehow the world ends up turning the tables on us," President Bush answered on April 10 in answer to a question on why the Administration won't talk...
...would discuss with her the emotional and romantic situations in my life, and we’d talk about ways to express that in art, and what ways other artists have expressed that. [Pause] I can’t be too specific, because it involves other people’s private lives...