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...urged professors to allow more of their departmental courses to count for Core credit, a move intented to provide options for students who will graduate under the Core as the curriculum transitions toward a new system of General Education. Smith said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will loosen the requirements for departmental courses to fulfill Core requirements. The development, was officially announced in an e-mail sent by Smith to faculty members on Friday afternoon. Although the curricular review was completed this spring, the Gen Ed requirements that will replace the Core will not apply to all students...
...aims fit perfectly with the description of what a Historical Study-B course is?And as for the “problem” created by a course’s being offered only once, if the Core Department were to do away with this arbitrary distinction and loosen its requirements, there would always be more courses in future semesters that a student could count. If he or she doesn’t get the opportunity to count the one I did, there will be another one that I won’t get to count. It?...
...opposition leaders took no comfort in Musharraf's conditional agreement to loosen his grip on the military. If the man who tried--and failed--last spring to dismiss an increasingly independent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court loses at the polls next month, critics fear a declaration of martial law could soon follow...
More broadly, Abe's resignation spells the end of an attempt among more conservative members of the LDP to loosen the bounds of postwar pacifism and forge a true military alliance with the U.S. That change gathered momentum under Abe's popular predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, who committed Japanese forces to assisting the U.S. in anti-terror operations - including in Iraq - and made noises about revising Japan's constitutional restrictions on military activity. (Japanese troops are allowed to act only in self-defense.) When he came to power, Abe made constitutional revision one of his top priorities, and kept...
...speaking with Haugerud at Tryst, the sprawling nightclub at the Wynn Las Vegas, where champagne is flowing freely and folks are beginning to loosen up after a cerebral day of presentations. Can this be the same person whose talk on buying farmland in Argentina, Brazil and the Midwest was intimidating in its attention to detail? In one breath she's discussing how the price per acre for Iowa farmland is not far from its nominal highs reached in 1973; in another she's recounting her early professional life in Geneva and how much fun she had. She seems almost normal...