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...Kirby, incidentally, might have done well to consult the handy guide distributed to all incoming first-years, Gordon Harvey’s Writing with Sources, before citing former University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s apparent definition of “liberal education” in his cover letter introducing the report. In addition to footnoting the wrong page number from Rudenstine’s book—a page which mysteriously contains neither of the two passages he quotes—Kirby failed to pick up on Rudenstine’s repeated use of the established and sensible...
...report feels divided on what it wants out of students. Kirby’s letter says, in discussing the reduction of concentration requirements, that “a three year-concentration may be ideal as preparation for doctoral study,” but asks whether “such a course of study [should] be the central aim of a college of arts and sciences.” University President Lawrence H. Summers—a driving force behind the review, whose rhetoric is woven throughout the report—became notorious last year for harping on how students commit...
...from the 1990s, when suspicion of a Stasi past was enough to force a politician or executive out of a job. "This period where uncovering Stasi involvement resulted in scandal is behind us," says social scientist Ralph Rytlewski of the Free University in Berlin. In an open letter, Runge said his Stasi ties were "nothing to be proud of." But if the shrug that greeted his story means Germany is through torturing itself over the past, it may also have to do with Runge's recent triumphs. In January, German trade magazine Horizont named him Media Manager of the Year...
Yang’s case has received worldwide attention from human rights groups and has raised concerns among U.S. officials in Washington about China’s human rights record. Sixty-seven members of Congress sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao April 26—the two-year anniversary of Yang’s arrest—requesting that he be released...
...experience and confidence which need to be considered more explicitly before still more such classes are foisted upon the much-beleaguered student body. Big issues like the fact that the enrollment represents wildly divergent background knowledge and high-school science curricula. Or the fact that the humble three-letter word “lab” can conjure up a host of negative associations for a nervous humanities major which need to be worked through very slowly and sensitively if the course material is to make any headway whatsoever...