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...liberal arts education. From the rigid system of requirements that existed during the college's earliest years, to the innovations regarding distribution requirements in 1945, to the eventual middle ground of the Core curriculum created in 1979, Harvard has experienced and effected an evolution in the conception of the ideal collegiate education. However, despite having noble aims, the most recent product of Harvard's philosophical debate over the question of general education--the Core--has failed to achieve the lofty goals to which it aspires...
...ideal world, Harvard's admissions policy, which was cited approvingly by the Supreme Court in the 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke case, is the model method toward which other schools should strive. Although Harvard acknowledges that race is one factor in the deliberation process, there is no explicit point system, meaning that an individual can be considered independently of any rigid scale. This allows for a more nuanced approach that places race within the context of an applicant's whole life experience...
...praises Bollinger's "broad sense of the academic mission" and cites the university's recent Life Sciences Initiative--a $130 million project that will expand the university's research facilities--as an ideal example of Bollinger's innovation...
...seem surprising that a deeply religious Pentecostal would choose to make his career in politics, a profession in which the deal very often buries the ideal under a pile of cheap excuses. But to someone like Ashcroft, if you believe it is your duty to serve others, then the ultimate service is politics. He believes it so deeply that when he lost his Senate race in November, he had a party for his staff and another for his fund raisers and personally served the coffee and the ice cream. There were no cameras there to record...
...search for perfection, he'll travel hundreds of kilometers to find the ideal backdrop for each scene. Before the shoot in Heng-dian, the 300-strong crew crisscrossed mainland China from Dunhuang in the northwest of Gansu province to Jiuzhaigou in northern Sichuan. Last year, the company dropped everything to head for an ancient oak grove in Inner Mongolia to shoot a fight scene between Cheung and Zhang Ziyi at the height of the fall foliage. "I had a guy out there specifically to keep an eye on the leaves," says Zhang. "He made videotapes of their progress as they...