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...professor of the computer science course, David J. Malan, wrote a letter to the Ad Board arguing that because Ec1010a and CS 50 are “gateway courses,” not allowing simultaneous enrollment can “impede one’s potential advancement to higher-level courses...
...field loses some of the brightest minds.According to Rhoda E. Schneider, general counsel of the Massachusetts Department of Education, law schools perpetuate this cycle by placing a heavy emphasis on corporate law positions. And even for students interested in the public sector, there is a tendency to turn to higher-level government positions.“In a place like Harvard Law School, it is very common for people who really care about issues affecting children and families to feel like they are swimming against the tide,” Schneider says.Bartholet adds that limited opportunities preclude students from developing...
...nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step in and stop them." Chen was at least partly successful: apparently due to his efforts, the state family planning commission issued a statement calling some of the activities by local officials irregular and promising to discipline those involved. (Further reality check: the commission is relatively toothless...
...foreign policy experts familiar with the proposal say it was developed by a "democracy and public diplomacy" working group that meets weekly at the State department to discuss Iran and Syria. Along with related working groups, it prepares proposals for the higher-level Iran Syria Operations Group, or ISOG, an inter-agency body that, several officials said, has had input from Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, deputy National Security Council advisor Elliott Abrams and representatives from the Pentagon, Treasury and U.S. intelligence. The State Department's deputy spokesman, Thomas Casey, said the election-monitoring proposal had already been through...
Fisher said the report should address “a general education program for Harvard, and not for the world or American higher-level education at large...