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...fulfill pre-1800 literature, American literature, and sophomore seminar requirements—along with their departmental electives. Under the new proposal students are freed from these rigid requirements. Instead, non-honors concentrators would be expected to take one course from each of the four “common-ground modules” outlined in the proposal and seven electives.This type of revamped program of study is a crucial step toward keeping the humanities relevant and alluring to undergraduates. As higher education becomes more and more specialized and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, the temptation to concentrate in a subject...
...Menand added that the four “common-ground modules,” which claim to redefine the English discipline, still leave out many branches such as literary criticism and 20th-century American literature: his own specialty...
...Smith ground staff hiring to a halt in late November, setting administrators the task of finding what "critical" positions would still be filled...
...pilot merely responded, “I guess so. Thank you very much.” Gladwell closed the story, and his talk, with a description of the miscommunication that lasted to the very end of the flight, as the plane plummeted to the ground. “There are two minutes of static,” Gladwell said slowly and dramatically. “And the last thing you hear on the flight log is air traffic control asking, ‘052, do you have enough fuel to land the plane...
...several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We are talking about post hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. And so it takes a significant ground-force presence."- Shinseki's testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Feb 25th 2003 on his troop level estimates in Iraq...