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...epidemic. A Harvard education means one learns a great many things, but never are students systematically taught the most inspiring examples of human ignorance. University President Lawrence H. Summers, for example, thinks students should know the difference between a gene and a chromosome. The Core program aims to instruct students in “ways of knowing,” and concentration tutorials initiate students into the methods of their chosen field. These are all laudable goals, yet they all focus on what is already known. In addition to learning “ways of knowing” in specific...
...last week were Russian-made Cornets, U.S. officials contend. And they say a Moscow-based company supplied the GPS-jamming equipment that Iraq deployed against allied forces, and which the U.S. military destroyed. The Americans say the same company also sent personnel to Iraq to maintain the equipment and instruct Iraqis on how to use it. Both the Russian government and the company alleged to have supplied the equipment denied any sale had taken place. Arms sales are a crucial source of tax revenue, bringing the Russian government $3 billion each year. Vote Early and Often CHECHNYA Ninety-six percent...
Applying for grants is the next task on the group’s agenda as they hope to invite a professional Capoeirist, called a mestra, to instruct the club’s biweekly classes. By the end of the semester, Capoeira Club members will be ready for performances next fall. “Capoeira has everything I love,” says Millstein. “You do it to music, it has a [lot of] ground fighting and it has all the showy-off parts of gymnastics that make you look like a bad-ass, but aren?...
...family-readiness groups attached to every company. They explain how to get car-insurance rates lowered without dropping the deployed spouse from the policy. They've arranged for the local department of motor vehicles to offer driving tests in the many languages of Army wives, like Korean. They instruct families about what not to stick in the care packages they send over: any overtly religious books or objects likely to give offense to Kuwaiti Muslims, any pork products, any magazine with revealing pictures of women, whether it's Maxim or Vogue; absolutely no alcohol...
...class will instruct nuptial novices on the practical matters of married life, such as child rearing and budgeting. But some women's-rights activists say the measure will do little to reduce splittist behavior. Sociology professor Ku Chung-hwa says marriages are on the rocks because women are no longer willing to be the junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise...