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...assume the responsibilities of the Standing Committee on the Core Program—but the Core itself, with all of its requirements, may remain in place for several years more as the academic and administrative details of the new curriculum are fleshed out.A LEARNING CURVEAccording to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who served on the three-member group that drafted the legislation based on a final report released in February, there will be a transition period of “a couple years at a minimum” in which both Core and general education...
Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt...
...push to break Syria's hold on Lebanon, and to seek justice for those behind Hariri's murder. And despite the major setback he suffered in 2004 when French voters rejected the European Union constitution he supported, Chirac's strong pro-European positions made him a vital partner for German leaders seeking to push ahead wit h EU expansion and consolidation. In stark contrast to Sarkozy and many other conservative European leaders, meanwhile, Chirac has continued to back Turkey's eventual entry to the EU as reward for its dedication to secularism and democracy - and to prevent it from recoiling...
...Task Force on Teaching and Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt.” “We don’t have a compact that we voted on,” Burgard said, adding that the Faculty knows the report “from The New York Times...
...arrival in Sao Paulo is also a reminder of another of the German Cardinal's more notable crackdowns - his critique of "liberation theology," the Latin American movement that Ratzinger and John Paul II condemned in the 1980s for mixing Church teachings with Marxism. Speaking to reporters on his plane, Benedict reiterated his warning against "mistaken mixing of Church and politics, of faith and politics," insisting the Church's mission was the "education of personal and social virtues," not direct intervention in the political sphere. And while he spoke positively of the push for sainthood for progressive Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero...