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...texts is that some works are especially worthy of study, either for aesthetic or historical reasons. That said, Columbia has been willing to adapt its curriculum over time and, to popular acclaim, recently added the Koran to reflect the increasingly multicultural society in which the institution found itself. And, lest anyone decry the Columbia system as close-minded, it should be noted that, in addition to the Euro-centric humanities requirements, students there must take two semesters of classes that examine non-Western cultures to a far greater depth than Harvard’s Foreign Cultures Core requirement mandates...
With third-party candidates at both ends of the political spectrum, both Romney and O’Brien have been careful not to stray too far from their respective parties’ traditional ideologies, lest they lose votes from their own parties’ bases of electoral support...
...Lest these signals of moderation send the American public the message that war may not be necessary after all, the White House sent out Press Secretary Ari Fleischer to make clear that for the Bush Administration, Iraqi compliance remains "the mother of all hypotheticals." And since then, the message to the UN has been, to quote President Bush, "If the United Nations can't make its mind up, Saddam Hussein won't disarm, we will lead a coalition to disarm him for the sake of peace." Diplomats at the Security Council tell TIME they believe there are divisions...
...employers cannot return money to individuals who fail to exhaust their accounts, lest fsas start to look like tax shelters. But companies can give the money back pro rata to everyone in the plan. Almost none do, choosing instead to offset plan administrative costs--an outrage that Congress finally noticed last year...
...Britney Spears circa 1999. More problematic, girls club is so self-consciously about, y'know, women's stuff that almost every story defines the characters in terms of gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss the X chromosomity of it all, Jeannie even sues on behalf of a woman whose ob-gyn passes out face first into her during an exam...