Word: frameworks
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...This first step toward serving Uncle Sam promises to "provide a framework of leadership, management and communication skills to enable the first year ROTC cadet to understand the responsibility and authority vested in Army officers, and to critically evaluate a leader's effectiveness." More advanced classes address "the leadership of small units conducting conventional combat operations" and discuss "defensive and retrograde operations." Harvard does not offer ROTC because the federal program's guidelines conflict with the University's anti-discrimination policy; homosexuals may not participate in the courses. The "Handbook for Students" extensive small-print on the subject warns readers...
...regents have, Albert Carnesale has shown that he is a discerning--and, unfortunately, unique--brand of educator who seeks to do more than just placate by means of symbolism. Instead, he has considered the university's ultimate goal and developed a means to that goal with the framework of the law. The resistance his ambitious plans have encountered suggests California's education problems may have as much to do with administrative malaise as with funding. Carnesale's brave response to these problems is far better for California's neglected minority students than the chants of the protesters or the ineffectual...
...talks anyway. The rebel movement's political spokesman Adem Demaci on Tuesday recommended a boycott of the negotiations, but hours later rebel HQ announced they would be attending this weekend's talks in France. The confusion reflects suspicion over the Serbs' bona fides as well as concern over the framework outlined by NATO. "The Kosovo autonomy plan may actually allow Milosevic to put NATO to work for him, because the West's opposition to independence for Kosovo makes peacekeeping troops the guarantors of Yugoslav sovereignty," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi...
...consuming interests in physics and astronomy had led him to the work of Miguel Alcubierre, who suggested in a 1994 paper that the space-time continuum could be modified within the framework of Einstein's theory of general relativity to allow a spaceship to travel faster than light--much like the "warp drives" of science fiction. Serious physicists don't dismiss such theories out of hand, describing them as intriguing thought experiments that could conceivably be proved true in, oh, say, 300 or 400 years...
Administrators of the classics and linguistics concentrations also see no need to reduce requirements, noting that the departments already offer the chance to fully explore a liberal arts education within the concentration's framework...