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...policies encourage students to pursue secondary fields, freshman seminars, language citations, and study abroad. However, a concentration plus a secondary field plus Expos, plus a language requirement, plus a freshman seminar, plus eight General Education courses add up to anywhere from 27 to 33 courses. And that’s assuming you’re a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts (not going for a Bachelor of Science) and not studying abroad. Concentration requirements have been cut back a bit—but that was the wrong place to make room, particularly in competitive scientific and technical fields...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is Time.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...hard to get a fix on just what the 80,000 protesters who descended on the G-8 summit here in northern Germany this week actually want. Plodding through a field towards the 7.2 mile, multimillion-dollar fence designed to keep him and his unkempt peers out, Channing Jones, a 40-year-old American freelance programmer, said Wednesday his purpose was to get governments to "help the common people." Earlier in the day, the art group Dropping Knowledge had released a huge floating sculpture of a baby into the River Warnow, in a less-than-self-explanatory attempt to show...
...small group of protesters bounded through a wheat field on Wednesday afternoon pursued by a slightly larger group of policemen, it was hard not to wonder what the point of the whole exercise...
...things. If the costs keep rising and people regularly get hurt, the summit should be shut down. But if the purpose of holding the G-8 has become the carnival of complaint that accompanies it, so be it. And if Channing Jones wants to hump several miles across a field to try and convince governments to help the common people...