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...heard any reaction to this,” Thomas said. Lewis predicted that a “significant number” of students in the Class of 2011—who are expected to have a choice between the Core and Gen Ed—will still elect to finish under the Core, making the availability of courses especially important. This year, the two committees governing the Core and Gen Ed will actively search for departmental courses that may fit into Core categories. After this year, that task will be handled solely by the Standing Committee on General Education...
...University’s newest administrative appliance at a crucial juncture in our history. On the cusp of an epic expansion, a new undergraduate curriculum, and massive administrative turnover, Harvard needs capable leadership now more than ever.It is thus dumbfounding that the University’s Governing Boards would elect to the presidency a pants-wearing, child-bearing scholar of social history (read: history for weaklings) who doesn’t even hold a degree from Harvard. By entrusting our community to a scaredy-pants Bryn Mawr alumna, whose principal administrative experience is as dean of the Radcliffe Institute...
...Never mind that the French haven't elected a Socialist - much less a Communist - President since 1988. Given where many of the attacks are aimed right now, it seems that candidates in both parties aren't afraid the French will elect Hillary Clinton President, but that Americans will...
...Just one day after Bush secured his election in December 2000, I received a phone call inviting me to Austin to meet with him and a small group of religious leaders. The President-elect wanted to discuss his oft-stated passion for really tackling the persistent problem of poverty and to tell us about his vision for "faith-based initiatives." I had not voted for George W. Bush, and that fact was no secret to him or his staff. But he reached out to me, and to others in the faith community across the political spectrum, because we shared...
...response to President-elect Bush was born of my own experience. He should, I suggested, listen to poor people themselves, and pay attention to those who live and work with the poor. Again, he nodded his head; again, he seemed to agree. When I returned home, I told my wife Joy, also a clergyperson, about our conversation. Weeks later, we listened together to President Bush's first inaugural address. When he said, "America, at its best, is compassionate. In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise. And whatever...