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Officers said they had hoped to use the meeting to create subcommittees, but the small size of the group presented "an unexpected opportunity [for] brainstorming...to think about what is the purpose, function, and mission of student government," said committee vice-chair Susan M. Groppi...
Instituting a math requirement at Harvard is something that is important from both a pedagogical and a practical point of view. In order to understand its importance, one must determine the present function of the Core. It serves to introduce students to material outside their field of concentration that they otherwise would not encounter. In this way, the Core serves to ensure that Harvard students receive a true liberal arts education. Beyond just subject matter, we learn about the way academics approach different disciplines, or--in Core-talk--approaches to knowledge. Whether this principle is accepted as the unifying foundation...
...Vegas, feeling lucky. It didn't matter if the player was a global wheeler-dealer like Tamraz, whom Interpol wanted to question in connection with $200 million that vanished from a bank in Lebanon where he once was chairman. The Clinton casino never closed. And for his failure to function as a more effective bouncer, National Security Adviser Tony Lake became the scandal's latest casualty, withdrawing last week as Clinton's nominee to head...
...other business, the Harvard Faculty Club applied for, and was granted, an extension for service to 1:30 a.m. on April 11 in order to host a black-tie function for students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government...
...right idea: collecting private money at the apogee of public disgust over the practice is perverse. The White House sees no such disconnect. If, in fact, the sign of a first-rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind and still function, then President Clinton is as smart as he wants to be, which unfortunately is not smart enough to know better. For him, fund raising is a no-brainer...