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...goals requires a period during which such Gen Ed plan generalities can assume a concrete meaning: a period to develop the necessary curricula and to prepare the faculty to make such aspirations a reality. An overly hasty implementation process would undermine the new system before it has time to establish itself. Gen Ed requires a period of development and nurturing—prior to implementation—precisely in order to avoid the very same flaws in execution that plague the Core...
...last time I was in the Green Zone I heard the American spokesman, Dan Senor, articulate the goal of America's mission in Iraq. It was to establish "a free and democratic Iraq, at peace with itself and its neighbors." He said it with such iambic verve and confidence it could have been the subtitle of a best-seller on Iraqi history - in a parallel dimension...
...cooing baby in the next cubicle? It may sound like a recipe for distraction to some, but programs that allow parents to take their infants to work are growing across the country. The newly established Parenting in the Workplace Institute has a database of more than 70 U.S. companies that allow babies at work, and founder Carla Moquin says she is constantly including more. "I believe that this is actually a lot more prevalent than I've found so far," she says, adding that many companies are slow to establish formal policies but often make ad hoc arrangements for individual...
...chief, Gul helped run the Afghan mujahideen as a force to counter and eventually defeat the Soviet Union in the 1980s; later he helped establish the Taliban in Afghanistan. He also organized the guerrillas fighting the Indian army in the sections of Kashmir held by New Delhi...
...article in immigration is enlightening, but it doesn't address the core problem: What should we do with the millions of illegal immigrants who are already in our country [Dec. 17]? It would be easy to think that we could wipe the slate clean, send everyone home, establish a threshold for the number of immigrants we want and create an orderly process for admission. Obviously, this will never happen. Why not admit that allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. provides cheap labor to fuel our country's economic growth? Illegal immigrants are here because we needed them...