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After several Faculty members spoke in favor of the reforms, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 drew a link between the course evaluation process and grade inflation...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Passes Q Reforms | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Georgetown's School of Foreign Service Tuesday. She's changing the training, focus and culture of the foreign service, she said. Rice wants to beef up career development programs for mid-level managers. She wants to phase out the foreign service tradition of having a cadre of generalists in favor of being able to deploy diplomats and civilians who have the specialized experience to address the specific needs of a post-conflict country. Rice has also talked about how she is trying to transform how the State Department shares information, so foreign service officers have "quick access to the knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is US Diplomacy Being Shortchanged? | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...think it would have made a difference. You know what turned ... You know, Romney was up 10 points in Florida until two things happened: McCain started with this bulls___ about Romney being in favor of a timeline for withdrawal - he did that on a Saturday. And then [Florida Governor Charlie] Crist endorsed [McCain]. Those are political realities on the ground, and nobody in talk radio could do anything about that. Even if I had decided six months ago that Romney's my guy and [I] had been pumping Romney ... that stuff happens a couple days before the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Limbaugh Talks to TIME | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

Hizballah has blamed Israel, and the organization's expected retaliation will likely aim in that direction. But could the $5 million price tag for Mughniyah's head have proved too tempting for a member of the Syrian regime? Or was it a favor by Damascus to the U.S. in exchange for an easing of international pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizballah Mourns Its Shadowy Hero | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone online, and cooperating with Google in the attempt to make books in the public domain actually available to the public, a worldwide public, which extends everywhere that people have access to the Internet. If the FAS votes in favor of the motion on February 12, Harvard will make the latest work of its scholars accessible, just as it is creating accessibility to the store of knowledge that it has accumulated in its libraries since 1638. The motion also represents an opportunity to reshape the landscape of learning. A shift in the system...

Author: By Robert Darnton | Title: The Case for Open Access | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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