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...especially for the death penalty (it's banned in the E.U., but Bush as governor presided over more than 140 executions) are out of sync with the the thinking of many European governments. "Europeans were already worried about the cultural gap between them and the U.S.," says Philip Gordon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "and we've just taken a political leap which seems to make that gap worse...
...anything, this weekend's Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center showed that Harvard, though a team on the rise, lacks the stranglehold it had on the sport when the IFAs were born...
...some professors, allowing a departmental course to count for Core credit is not a daunting decision. Yet, Gordon says, "There are a lot of reasons a professor would think twice about teaching a Core course. Enrollment is likely to jump, and some would prefer to teach...
...Gordon notes that "you have a lot of pressure to be an entertainer" and the "Core guidelines can be seen as restrictive...
...restrictions, namely that Historical Studies A must cover material up to present times, and Historical Studies B must be about a discreet event. Thus, "some great [departmental] courses may not fit well into A or B...A lot of courses would require reworking" [in order to meet Core guidelines], Gordon says...