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...such an enormous outburst of violence a month ago, he would have been labeled a fool, a Cassandra, or, more likely, a racist. The truly frightening thing about the current situation in France is that a fringe figure like Jean-Marie Le Pen sounds the most realistic about the extent of the problem. While de Villepin, Chirac, and even the hardheaded Sarkozy sound conciliatory, spinning the riots as a passing phenomenon, Le Pen notes that rather obvious fact that the recent riots are “just the start” of conflicts caused by “massive immigration...
...worthy of Person of the Year award for his work as a philanthropist. And, ever the White House correspondent, he also suggested that President Bush could be considered for a second year in a row- although this time as ?the incredible shrinking president? in light of the extent to which he has lost popular support and seen his initiatives thwarted in the year since his reelection...
...product. Even as Motorola continues to develop high-end phones, he is pushing the company to go after the lowest end of the spectrum: a sub-$40 phone aimed at farmers and the striving urban masses in India, several nations in Africa and, to a lesser extent, China. But he doesn't want to sell just cheap phones; he wants to transform those markets into a new base of customers for every product the company sells...
...proposed system of general education would enable driven students to select the broad education that fits them best, but has the inherent danger of enabling some students to avoid challenging or unfamiliar academic territory. The extent to which the Faculty would be willing to risk such flexibility stands as the greatest question surrounding general education’s future at Harvard...
...what a distribution requirement looks like, what a great books requirement looks like,” said Faculty Council member and Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas. “We don’t know quite what it is we have here...this is an experiment to some extent.”Some faculty members say they worry that the report’s decision to limit requirements in order to promote simplicity and free choice will result in students taking all their general education courses in only two or three departments. Three economics courses, for example, might fulfill...