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...report comes over two years after the Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education first met. The Committee on General Education is the last of six Curricular Review Committee to issue a report to the full faculty. A previous draft report by the committee was distributed to the Faculty Council in March, but was never released to the full faculty, after it encountered significant criticism for lacking a guiding vision...
...don’t imagine for a minute that it will look like [the previous draft report],” Thomas said. “It sounds...
Robert M. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, one member of the “Gang of Five,” stressed that the draft is still being revised and changed...
Christopher Hill, it turns out, does his best work by moonlight. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator at the six-party North Korean nuclear talks had a Chinese draft proposal in hand that could jump-start the long-stalled negotiations. The proposal offered Pyongyang the possibility of a light-water reactor for producing electrical power in the future if it agreed to completely dismantle its nuclear programs, both military and civilian. But Hill needed assurances from the other delegations?China, Russia, Japan, South Korea?that they would not help North Korea get the reactor until international inspectors...
...played a key part. Throughout the recess, China kept the talks alive with bilateral meetings, pushing draft proposals on Pyongyang. But when the delegates returned on Sept. 13, North Korea's demand for a reactor remained unchanged. For the U.S., North Korea's position had less to do with energy needs?its power grid is in a shambles?than scoring political points. But with Hill ready to pack his bags, the Chinese came up with a fifth draft proposal: a delicately-worded compromise that raised the possibility that North Korea could have its trophy reactor at some point, while committing...