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...morality? In my fantasy, I envision a Core curriculum that includes a mandatory class on the basic issues of human rights and tolerance for others. As the administration continues its review of the Core curriculum, we are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to turn fantasy into reality. If curricular inertia proves too much to overcome, what are our alternatives...
...Indonesian authorities. I. Gusti Wesaka Puja, the official handling the issue at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta, says the government is doing all it can to help. But "the fact is we have other priorities that demand much more of our attention than just these children," he says. Bureaucratic inertia and a lack of funding?it costs $500 to bring a single parent from East Timor to Sumedang?all combine to hinder progress. "It's an agonizingly slow process," says Jake Moreland, a UNHCR spokesman in Dili, East Timor's capital. "And time is precious. The longer they are apart...
...industry gripe about this structure is that it breeds inertia. The Broccolis, says a studio insider, "are very adamant about the things James Bond can and cannot do." A suggestion that always gets vetoed is for new larger-than-life villains. "They always say, 'James Bond is the hero,'" says an MGM exec. "No one can overshadow...
Progress against administrative inertia ultimately depends on vigilance and pressure from the larger Harvard community. We must push admissions to shift its priorities beyond easily marketable groups and to include the very low-income students that, in so many other ways, preoccupy our social conscience...
...says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics. Receiving lukewarm support from his boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Takenaka has buckled. At a press briefing last week, Takenaka called his plan 'a good start.' Who says the Japanese have no sense of irony...