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Alas, the new system in fact remains diffuse and diluted. With every academic faction in the College insisting that no student should graduate without taking their course, the resulting proposal was uninspiring, with the catchall categories of the Core dressed up in lofty rhetoric. What ought to have been an incisive, practical new plan devolved into another exercise in esoterica. In the end, general education is a case study in the frustrating nature of Harvard politics, characterized by institutional inertia and politically correct banality...
Fighting between Lebanese troops and militants from an Islamist Palestinian faction continued outside Tripoli, Lebanon's second biggest city, for a second day Monday in the country's worst internal violence since the end of the 1975-1990 civil...
...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...
...extremists want to stop efforts of reconciliation between the Iraqi government and an Iraqi-led, nationalist faction of the insurgency that has turned on al-Qaeda in recent weeks. That was the likely motive in an earlier attack on March 23, when Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie was hospitalized after an attack reportedly carried out by a guard who detonated a suicide vest at al-Zubaie's compound on the edge of the Green Zone. Al-Zubaie, a Sunni from a powerful tribe west of Baghdad, is an important promoter of the reconciliation policy...
...Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed many of the politicians who have changed allegiance...