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Harvard does harbor a minority of distinctly interdisciplinary concentrations, but these programs are not run by tenured, departmental faculty members. Rather, they are the province of graduate students and young academics. By contrast, the curricular review seeks to make general the connections between diverse disciplines. This would mean encouraging professors to create courses that draw on a variety of academic traditions and to guide their students to write senior theses that refuse to conform to one category of scholarship. Yet it seems clear that this cannot happen if professors themselves do not start to think more flexibly about what...
According to Lesser, the group has high hopes for the proposal, but according to the draft of the report, “We harbor no illusions that redistricting reform will be an easy task...
...Michael Suen, Hong Kong's Secretary of Housing, Planning and Lands, insists that he and his colleagues have got the message. "We know the harbor is our greatest asset," he stresses. But Suen says that somehow or other, a new highway has to be built. "The overriding need is the road," he says, while pledging that most of the land above it will be used for parks and promenades. Activists, however, have heard such claims before. Chu asks, "Who can trust the government?" and notes that the planned West Kowloon cultural district, will, if completed, offer millions of square meters...
...Hong Kong, few policies move without the backing of the business community, which is why the formation of the Harbour Business Forum is important. Business leaders don't want to take over all plans for the harbor. But the Forum has already settled on four broad areas in which it wants the Hong Kong government's performance to improve, and it will release the details next month. The Forum's report will call for a single, omniscient harbor authority, and transparency in the planning of projects. At the same time, the group says there should be a bias toward developing...
...loved one, especially when they wish an end to that life but are unable to take responsibility for the decision. Their uncertainty could be caused by family members' anecdotal evidence of terminally ill individuals who were expected to die but made a miraculous recovery. It's perfectly human to harbor such hopes, even unrealistic ones. Such events should be brought to the fore even if they are very rare. That can only make a constructive contribution to this debate. Anwar Suleman Mall Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town Cape Town...