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...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) is finally brought before the Faculty in the coming semester, its focus will shift from broader issues of general philosophy and overall framework to finer details of implementation. Chief among these unresolved details is the pressing issue of how and when to transition from the Core Curriculum to the new system. Because of the deficiencies of the Core and the ostensible simplicity of a transition, the best course of action for current students is “instant implementation”—getting rid of the Core and moving all students...
...before Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister on a promise to bury the Oslo peace process. President Bush's "road map" toward peace is little more than an empty mantra occasionally mouthed by both sides when the Americans are listening, but which neither has shown any serious inclination to implement. If anything, Hamas's victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process...
...Hamas already "negotiates" with Israel in a practical sense, although not directly: The current cease-fire is a product of a complicated four-way negotiation between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Hamas. It has an incentive to maintain the cease-fire now, because it needs to implement its domestic program. In the end, a Hamas government will rise and fall not by how it transforms relations with Israel, but how it implements its promises to clean up Palestinian government...
...however easy it may be to understand, the global culture of distrust and disdain has disturbing implications. In Western Europe, for example, naysayers impede needed economic reforms. Government officials know they must implement sweeping policy changes to make their economies more competitive, but leaders who want to effect change must be concerned with the social consequences and their own reelection prospects. "We have to make strategic choices in the context of a strong questioning of our institutions and traditional systems of representation," says Sophie Boissard, a senior French civil servant who is establishing a policy-strategy unit for Prime Minister...
...Kirby wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that while it could take “a two to three year period of development” to implement new foundational Courses in General Education across the four divisions of the College, it would be “theoretically possible to move to more open distribution sooner than new general education courses (departmental and beyond) are available...