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Members of the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—considered a draft version of the General Education report for the Harvard College Curricular Review at their meeting yesterday...
According to a copy viewed by The Crimson last month, the draft report recommends replacing the current Core Curriculum, which includes 11 areas of study, with three broad subjects—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Students will be required to take three courses in each of the two areas furthest from their concentration. Alternatively, students can take year-long “portal” courses to fulfill the requirement for one of the new general education divisions...
...into two of the most contentious topics facing the Faculty, acting as intermediaries between the Faculty and the Harvard Corporation—the University’s seven-member governing board—during the uproar surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers and also leveling crippling criticism against a draft of the General Education report for the Harvard College Curricular Review...
...Sunni Arabs make up barely a fifth of Iraq's population but were the dominant political class until the fall of Saddam Hussein. The majority of Sunnis sat out the Jan 30 general election, but leaders like Mutlaq were persuaded in the summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor...
...Iraq's constitution, a step that would effectively derail the political process and undermine any prospect of the Oct. 15 vote helping to end the insurgency. Many Sunni groups say the vote would be meaningless, since their community is being denied a fair chance to vote down the draft constitution - and they believed their suspicions were confirmed by Sunday's vote in the Shiite-led Iraqi parliament to rewrite the rules in a way that effectively made it impossible for Sunnis to defeat the constitution in the referendum. That change was hastily retracted, Monday, in the face of strong international...