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...against the Red Brigades terrorist network in Rome when he was named prefect of Palermo last April. No better choice could have been made for this mission impossible--to fight the Sicilian Mafia on its own turf--than the selection of Dalla Chiesa. Having vanquished the kidnappers of U.S. Gen. James Dozier and the killers of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Dalla Chiesa stood for everything efficient, uncorrupted and powerful in Italian government...
...Defense Department official yesterday said that the proposed changes were unrelated to the May letter of Major Gen. Hugh J. Clausen, but rather came from a periods review and clarification of existing regulations...
...meeting and the formal update will both take place within the next two weeks, Gen Denterlein, the committee's official liaison, said...
Where the [Gen Ed] program had attempted a broad, survey-like introduction to all the major areas of knowledge, the Core isolated certain ways of tackling problems in different areas and required students to learn these, not in some abstract way but by actually wrestling with and working through selected sets of problems...
...Rosovsky and Company felt less strongly about their mandate, they might conceivably have seen more to recommend Gen Ed's flexibility than an opportunity for students "to dip more or less randomly into the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities". And had they paid closer attention to the difference between intention and execution in Gen Ed, they might have foreseen that the Core's constraints would only keep students from exploring even that far. As it is, Keller's account is as frustrating as it is enlightening. It's depressing for a Core critic to think that even...