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...staff said in public that the Army was "broken" and the Marine Corps Commandant made similar complaints. Bush had to do something to ease that condition - and he knows there is support for such an expansion in Congress. While it would take several years to recruit, train and equip the new units, Bush's inclination here underscores how much damage the war has done to force structure. My own guess is that Bush will tout this expansion regularly in the coming weeks, not so much because it would do anything to ease conditions in Iraq in the the near term...
...narrow a range of advocacy techniques. There is a place for meeting with deans and writing position papers, but petitions, rallies, letter writing campaigns, and op-eds should also be part of the UC’s advocacy toolkit. Hadfield and Goldenberg’s entrepreneurial approach will equip the UC with tools to match the demands of issues the UC has never before been able to successfully address.While many tickets identify pressing concerns facing the campus, Hadfield and Goldenberg offer uniquely detailed and practical strategic plans to address them. For each problem they identify, they have specified roles...
...written by former University President James B. Conant ’14, otherwise known as the Red Book.The Red Book, which addressed what college should be like in the post-WWII world, advocated a so-called “great books” curriculum that would equip students with the tools they needed to engage fully in a meritocratic society.While the new Gen Ed proposal eschews anything even remotely like a core set of knowledge, its goals are similar to those of the Red Book’s. “Harvard should seek...to inspire its students to become...
...formidable ground game to turn out voters. But even more reassuring for G.O.P. leaders is knowing that they, as members of the party in power, have gerrymandered electoral districts; booby-trapped election processes in such states as Ohio and Florida; and widely mandated unreliable, unsecure and unverifiable voting equipment. Time should invite international judges and journalists to monitor the elections and report their findings in the magazine. Robert Travis San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Compromised Standards I am ashamed of our congress for adopting legislation that allows coerced testimony to be used as evidence in trials of terrorism suspects...
...equip students for life outside of the academy, content must take precedence over method. By jettisoning the focus on historical approaches, the new requirement opens the possibility of choosing from a variety of disciplines with subject matter as the ultimate criterion for inclusion in the list of approved courses. History courses outside of Robinson Hall are not neglected; the report cites courses from current history, sociology and Social Analysis offerings as ones that would fulfill the requirement...