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...Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element to the new Program for General Education that the plan was on hold due to the financial crisis...
Mohler's view is, to a certain extent, shared by Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, who leads an ad hoc panel of U.S. Catholic bishops set up to fight gay marriage. He too sees a potential future when a greater acceptance of homosexuality leads to pressure on churches to conform, and even to change their teachings. "There are grave threats that decisions by the courts, legislative actions or regulations could erode religious freedom," Kurtz tells TIME. "With regard to marriage, this implicates the right of Catholics to practice our beliefs. Here we are talking about the bedrock of society...
...Dean of Undergraduate Education and Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris—who petitioned his superiors for the funds to make such a program possible—recently e-mailed the ad hoc committee members to inform them that the plan is on hold due to a lack of funds, though he and the Gen Ed committee remain committed to the project, according to history professor David R. Armitage, who co-chaired the ad hoc faculty committee that had been exploring the possibility of a great books track within...
...From there, an ad hoc committee to explore the possibility of building a great books program—co-chaired by Armitage and English professor Marjorie Garber—formed this year under the purview of the Gen Ed committee...
...still make it as a public company because a bankruptcy could be too messy for the Administration's tastes. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Key members of an ad hoc committee representing GM bondholders have begun preparing arguments against the auto maker's bankruptcy plan." The creditors may lose their attempt to get a better deal than being given debt in a company which holds the worst part of the GM asset base, but they can make the process prolonged and painful for the company and the Treasury. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...