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There were no votes at the meeting, but draft legislation for some recommendations was presented to the full Faculty for the first time...
...first draft legislation to be presented regarded the establishment of secondary fields. Under the proposal, created by the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee (EPC), students would be able to take four to six half courses in a field other than their primary concentration and receive credit for it on their academic transcript...
...guard its opportunity. Last summer, leading Marxist economist Liu Guoguang fired a warning shot: "We must make sure leaders at every level are really Marxists, instead of having a red [communist] surface and white [capitalist] core." Then, noted Peking University law professor Gong Xiantian assailed the property law draft for "copying capitalist civil law like a slave...
Thousands of Vietnam veterans heaved a collective sigh of relief that sharpshooter Cheney received five draft deferments...
Since then Patterson has co-written eight of his novels. He'll whip up a detailed outline, then ship it off to his collaborator for a first draft. "I may talk to them on a couple-week basis," he says. "And then at a certain point I'll just take it over and write as many as seven drafts. There were a couple of them that really were a mess," he adds ruefully. "At least twice it's been, 'I wish that I just started this thing myself.'" It's rare for big-name authors to use co-writers...