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Oliver, a former English teacher, says he’d like the opportunity to proctor an English exam. In his first year, he has proctored primarily science and math exams...
...History is a public discipline,” Ferguson says. “It’s not like math or nuclear physics—it’s intelligible...
Prospective social science and humanities concentrators dominate the Class of 2008, with 27 and 25 percent of students, respectively, planning concentrations in those areas. Twenty-two percent of the incoming first-years plan to pursue a concentration in biological sciences. Physical sciences and math each drew 8 percent of the students, while 7 percent indicated an interest in engineering. Computer science concentrators make up 2 percent of the accepted students and 1 percent is still undecided...
SENTENCED. YANG JIANLI, 40, human-rights activist and permanent U.S. resident; to five years in prison for allegedly spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Yang studied for a doctorate in math in California in the 1980s but returned to China to participate in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. After returning to the U.S.-where he earned a second Ph.D., at Harvard-Yang wrote prolifically about the need for democracy in China and was declared persona non grata by Beijing. In mid-2002, Yang returned to China on a borrowed passport to investigate labor unrest...
Howard's incumbency explains in part why Labor has struggled to define itself since 1998. The Opposition has only one-fifth as many ministerial staffers. In costing its programs, it does not have all the information it would like. When Opposition leader Mark Latham blundered on superannuation math, an army of bureaucrats was there to give the Treasurer the correct numbers. If Oppositions are accused of holding back on policy detail, one reason could be that federal governments can call on some 130,000 public servants to mull over those programs. As well, being out of the loop on intelligence...