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...Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before his panel is Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, who has just completed an investigation into whether senior officers in Iraq looked the other way when news of killings trickled up the chain of command or tried to cover...
...teaching.” This, then, is the function and gravity of the curricular review. In short, it’s time to get moving. The review is the work of eight different committees, the most wide-reaching and controversial of which was the Committee on General Education. The Gen Ed report has generally been received favorably because there is rightfully a general consensus, among undergraduates and many faculty members alike, that the Core is antiquated and broken. It seeks to teach “approaches to knowledge” without any reference to the knowledge being approached. The result...
...Jolly-up”—smoky Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied-up. One of the doctoral students, who led Whitman’s Gen Ed section, hated dancing with his students. So his friend, Robert Whitman, took her hand—literally.“I remember going upstairs and telling my roommate: I’ve met the man I’m going to marry,” Whitman says.That fateful dance didn?...
...Operations after a personnel disagreement with then Director Porter Goss. But in the spy game, as in life, things can change quickly. Now Goss has resigned as director and Kappes, a respected CIA veteran, has agreed to return to Langley to serve under the new director, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden...
...peppered his speech with notes of reconciliation. “Difficult marriages sometimes end, and so it is with ours,” he began. “Life is too short for anger, and yet, it is too long not to reflect on experience.”GEN ED IN LIMBOBeyond the good-byes of the two most powerful members of the Faculty, the meeting foreshadowed the looming debate over what will succeed the Core Curriculum.Kirby announced that incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok had called on the dean to appoint a committee of professors to draft legislation...